In the early 13th century, the Zenata Amazigh Marinids entered the Rif and there they defeated the Almohads in a great battle in 1216.

This Riffian woman became the mother of the Marinid sultan Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq.

Leo Africanus mentions in his book "Description of North Africa" (1526) that the Ait Touzine was a fairly prosperous area, where the inhabitants worked their land in complete freedom.

After this great victory of the trio Ait Touzine-Ibeqoyen-Ait Ouriaghel, all the other tribes of the Rif region decided to support the resistance.

Nowadays a large number of the Ait Touzine are living in Europe as a result of the migration in the 1970s.

•Ait Beräiez (Ijjarmaouas and Iwardijen) •Ait Tseft (From the Ighzar Nekkur to Kassita) •Ait Taaban (Surroundings of Tleta n Azlaf) The territory of the Ait Touzine tribe extends from the Nekour River near Al Hoceima to Driouch and from Temsamane to the Gzenaya tribe.