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Tighennif
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Tighennif (Arabic: تيغنيف) 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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Personalities
[edit]- 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.
References
[edit]- ^ 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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