Ṭarrāna

Tarrana lies beside the Rosetta branch of the Nile at the edge of Egypt's western desert. It occupies the area of ancient Terenuthis, whose name recalled the goddess Renenutet. The town stood near a route to the salt lakes of Wadi El Natrun. Natron gathered in the desert could be brought to the river for storage and shipment; by 1789 Tarrana had become an inland port for exporting it to Marseille.