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