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Commune and town in Mascara Province, Algeria

Tighennif is a town and commune in Mascara Province, Algeria. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 55,800.

Personalities

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.
Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao is a famous person associated with Tighennif.
Henri Akoka French-Algerian clarinetist.

Statoids
Arambourg, C. (1955). "Le gisement de Ternifine et l'Atlanthropus" [The deposits of Ternifine and Atlantanthropus]. Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française (in French) (52): 94–95. JSTOR 27914994.

v t e Mascara Province
Capital: Mascara
Districts	Aïn Farès Aïn Fekan Aouf Bouhanifia El Bordj Ghriss Hachem Mascara Mohammedia Oggaz Oued El Abtal Oued Taria Sig Tighenif Tizi Zahana
Communes	Aïn Fares Aïn Fekan Aïn Ferah Aïn Fras Alaimia Aouf Beniane Bou Hanifia Bou Henni Chorfa El Bordj El-Gaada El Ghomri Hachem El Keurt El Menaouer Ferraguig Froha Gharrous Guerdjoum Guittena Ghriss Mamounia Hacine Khalouia Makdha Maoussa Mascara Matemore Mocta Douz Mohammadia Nesmoth Oggaz Oued El Abtal Oued Taria Ras Ain Amirouche Sedjerara Sehaîlia Sidi Abdeldjebar Sidi Abdelmoumen Sidi Kada Sidi Boussaid Sig Tighennif Tizi Zahana Zelameta

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