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

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 Atlantanthropus 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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