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Tighennif
Palikao | |
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Commune and town | |
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  Tighennif | |
| Coordinates: 35°25′N 0°20′E / 35.417°N 0.333°E | |
| Country |  Algeria |
| Province | Mascara Province |
| Population (2008) | |
| • Total | 94,210 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
Tighennif is a town and commune in Mascara Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 94,210.[1]
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.
References
- ^ 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.
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