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