- "I know Tangier."
- ―Indiana Jones[src]
Tangier, or Tangiers, is the major city in northern Morocco, on the Atlantic coast near the Strait of Gibraltar.
Founded by the ancient Phoenicians, Tangier has been a port for commerce for millennia, and was mostly inhabited by Berbers. Control of the city was heavily sought after by the European colonial powers, with Portuguese, English, Spanish and French control over the centuries. By the turn of the twentieth century, Morocco's independence was threatened by European powers.
In 1905, the Kaiser of Germany came to Tangier to support Moroccan independence claims against France, prompting an international crisis, but by 1912, Morocco was divided between Spain and France, with Tangier declared an international zone.
Adventures in Tangier[]
Tangier in 1908.
Indiana Jones visited Tangier during his father's 1908-1910 world lecture tour where the Jones family met with Henry Jones, Sr.'s friend, Walter Harris. Harris introduced the Joneses to Emily Keene.[1]
In the winter 1930, Jones had followed René Belloq to Marrakesh to recover the Uppsala Scroll before Belloq could sell it. Disguised in the marketplace, Jones haggled with a Marrakesh merchant, and claimed that he could get a better deal in Tangier.[2]
Jones was pulled into a tuk-tuk chase in 1969 during the fallout of goddaughter Helena Shaw's dealings with the Antikythera.[3]
Locations within Tangier[]
- Marketplace
- Home of Emily Keene
- Hotel L'Atlantique
Appearances[]
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Tangiers, July 1909" → My First Adventure
- Indiana Jones Adventures: Volume 1 (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Sources[]
- Indiana Jones: Den of Destiny (On map)
Caves, Castles, and Tuna Factories: Inside the Locations of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org)
