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Also Inflected form of tangy

Tangier

tan·gier

UK/ˈtæŋɪə(r)/ US/ˈtæŋi.ə(r)/ uncommon

noun

1.

a city of northern Morocco at the west end of the Strait of Gibraltar

  • “the first tangerines were shipped from Tangier to Europe in 1841”
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Mentioned in Ancient Greek sources as Τίγισις (Tígisis), possibly from Numidian, since it was a Numidian city. Compare Punic 𐤕𐤍𐤂 (tng).

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