Tighennif
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Tighennif () is a town and commune in Mascara Province, Algeria. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 55,800.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Tighennif
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tighennif.jpg
- Settlement.image_map
- DZ-29- Tighennif.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Algeria
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Mascara Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.established_title
- Palikao
- Settlement.established_date
- 28 January 1870
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2008
- Settlement.population_total
- 55,800
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- تيغنيف
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Tighenif District
- Population
- 62210
- Elevation
- 500
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Capital of
- Tighenif District
- Image
- Tighennif.jpg
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- postal code
- 29004
- native label
- باليكاو
- Commons category
- Tighennif
- inception
- 1870-01-28
- P12749
- genetics
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Fossil
- Personalities
- References
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tighennif” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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