Tighennif is a town and

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

Mascara Province Mascara ( ar, معسكر ', ber, ⵎⵄⴻⵙⴽⴻⵔ ') is a province (''wilaya'') in Algeria. It was named after its capital, whose name is Arabic for "military garrison", and which is unrelated to "mascara", the cosmetic. Another important ...

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. 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 The Chibanian, widely known by its previous designation of Middle Pleistocene, is an age in the international geologic timescale or a stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. The ...

, which French vertebrate paleontologist

Camille Arambourg Camille Arambourg ( February 3, 1885– November 19, 1969) was a French vertebrate paleontologist. He conducted extensive field work in North Africa. In the 1950s he argued against the prevailing model of Neanderthals as brutish and simian. Du ...

classified as ''Atlantanthropus mauritanicus'' in 1955. * Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao is a famous person associated with Tighennif. *

Henri Akoka Henri (or Henry) Akoka (23 June 1912 – 22 November 1976) was an Algerian Jewish clarinetist. Biography Akoka was born on 23 June 1912 in Palikao, Algeria, then French territory. He was the second of six children of Abraham Akoka, a trumpet pla ...

French-Algerian clarinetist.

References

Communes of Mascara Province {{MascaraDZ-geo-stub