Tighennif
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| Country |  Algeria |
| Province | Mascara Province |
| Palikao | 28 January 1870 |
| Population (2008) | |
• Total | 55,800 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
Tighennif (Arabic: تيغنيف) is a town and commune in Mascara Province, Algeria. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 55,800.[1]
Fossil
[edit | edit source]- Ternifine or Tighennif is the home of a fossil human jawbone dating to the Middle Pleistocene, which French vertebrate paleontologist Camille Arambourg classified as Atlanthropus mauritanicus in 1955.[2]
Personalities
[edit | edit source]- Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao was a general associated with Tighennif.[citation needed]
- Henri Akoka, French-Algerian clarinetist.
References
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