Tighennif

Commune and town in Mascara Province, Algeria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]

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Palikao28 January 1870

Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)

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Tighennif
Commune and town


Tighennif
Country	Algeria
Province	Mascara Province
Palikao	28 January 1870
Population (2008)
• Total	55,800
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)

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Fossil

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

Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao was a general associated with Tighennif.^{[citation needed]}
Henri Akoka, French-Algerian clarinetist.

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