Tighennif
Tighennif is a town and commune in Mascara Province, Algeria. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 55,800.
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.