Tighenif
Tighenif (formerly known as Palikao) is a town in Mascara Province; western Algeria.
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.[1]
- Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao is a famous person associated with Tighenif.
References
Coordinates: 35°25′N 0°20′E / 35.417°N 0.333°E
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