Tighennif () is a town and commune in Mascara Province, Algeria. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 55,800.[ Statoids]
Fossil
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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.
Personalities
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Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao was a general associated with Tighennif.
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Henri Akoka, French-Algerian clarinetist.
