Tanger (disambiguation)

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Tanger is the French spelling of Tangier, sometimes called Tangiers, a city in Morocco.

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Tanger may also refer to:

Geography

Tanger (river) river in Germany

The Tanger is a small river of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is a left tributary to the river Elbe at Tangermünde.

Tanger-Med

Tanger Med is a Moroccan cargo port located on the Strait of Gibraltar about 40 km east of Tangier, Morocco. It is the largest port on the Mediterranean and in Africa by capacity and went into service in July 2007. Its initial capacity was 3.5 million shipping containers.

People with the surname

Helen Tanger Dutch rower

Helen Tanger is a rower from the Netherlands.

Stanley K. Tanger was an American businessman, philanthropist and pioneer of the outlet shopping industry. Tanger founded Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, which began with a single location in Burlington, North Carolina in 1981, and now has 45 shopping centers throughout the United States and Canada as of April, 2015. In doing so, he invented "the very concept of the outlet mall", according to the News & Record of Greensboro, North Carolina. Tanger Outlets grossed $270 million in 2009.

Sports

Étoile Diewhirst Tanger, also called AED Tanger is a Moroccan football club from Tangier currently playing in the third division. The new name of the club is Atletico Tanger

Other uses

Louise Arnold Tanger Arboretum

Louise Arnold Tanger Arboretum is an arboretum located on the grounds of the Lancaster County Historical Society at 230 North President Avenue, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The arboretum is open to the public daily.

Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina is an $85 million 3,000-seat performing arts facility scheduled to open in the spring of 2020. It will replace 2,400-seat War Memorial Auditorium in the Greensboro Coliseum Complex; the auditorium was torn down in October 2014. The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro raised $35 million privately, to be paid over ten years. The city of Greensboro is paying $30 million. Construction was delayed a year so the foundation could get a $25 million bank loan to guarantee its contribution. The Greensboro Symphony and Guilford College's Bryan Series are expected to use the facility. The facility will also host Broadway productions and concerts. The facility is named for Steven Tanger, CEO of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, who pledged $7.5 million toward the project in 2013. After working for a year, a task force recommended a state of the art center in February 2013. Groundbreaking was held April 26, 2017 and the first work took place July 13.

Tanger Factory Outlet Centers

Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. is a real estate investment trust headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina that invests in shopping centers containing outlet stores.

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Ittihad Tanger association football club

Ittihad Riadi Tanger which means "Tangier Sports Union", known as Ittihad Tanger, abbreviation IRT is a Moroccan football club based in Tangier, Morocco. The club was founded in 1983 as a union of a number of old clubs around Tangier at the time. Ittihad Riadi Tanger has a basketball team, football, volleyball and Rugby teams, supporting wide range of sports as well. Their home games are hosted at Stade Ibn Batouta . IR Tanger has a large fanbase in northern Morocco, especially in the Tanger–Tetouan-Alhoceima region as it is the only relatively one of the biggest clubs in the region and the country itself.

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Tangier's economy is the third biggest of all Moroccan cities, after the economic capital Casablanca and the political capital Rabat. Tangier is Morocco's second most important industrial center after Casablanca. The industrial sectors are diversified: textile, chemical, mechanical, metallurgical and naval. Currently, the city has four industrial parks of which two have the status of free economic zone.


Fondation Lorin is an art museum located on the Rue Es-Siaghine in Tangier, Morocco. It was named as one of the oldest synagogues in the city. It is located near the Place du 9 Avril 1947 and Mendoubia Gardens. It is housed in an old synagogue, and displays items such as newspapers, photographs, posters and plans related to the political, sporting, musical and social history of Tangier since the 1930s. It also has a number of contemporary paintings, and exhibitions are regularly held at the Fondation Lorin.

Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden

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The Tangier International Zone was a 373 km2 (144 sq mi) international zone centered on the city of Tangier, Morocco, then under French and Spanish protectorate, under the joint administration of France, Spain, and the United Kingdom, that existed from 1924 until its reintegration into independent Morocco in 1956.

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Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region in Morocco

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Escuela Hispano Árabe de Tánger was a Spanish football club based in Tangier, in Morocco.