Tighennif
Commune and town in Mascara Province, Algeria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tighennif 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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Tighennif | |
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Commune and town | |
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  Tighennif | |
| Coordinates: 35°25′N 0°20′E | |
| Country |  Algeria |
| Province | Mascara Province |
| Palikao | 28 January 1870 |
| Population (2008) | |
| • Total | 55,800 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
- 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]
- Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao is a famous person associated with Tighennif.
- Henri Akoka French-Algerian clarinetist.
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