Tighenif
Encyclopedia
Tighenif is a town in Mascara Province
; western Algeria
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Mascara Province
Mascara is a province in Algeria. There was an earthquake in Mascara City on 18 August 1994 - 5.6 on the Richter scale - which killed 171 people. It was named after its capital, whose name means "military garrison" in Arabic, and which is unrelated to "Mascara", the cosmetic...
; western Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
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Personalities
- Ternifine or Tighenif is the site of what is thought to be the earliest/oldest fossilised bones of humans in North Africa, called the man of Ternifine.
- Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de PalikaoCharles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de PalikaoCharles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao was a French general and statesman.-Biography:Montauban was born in Paris. As a cavalry officer he saw much service in Algeria, but he was still only a colonel when in 1847 he effected the capture of Abdel Kadir...
is a famous person associated with Tighenif.