 Nyora kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Muzana ramakore rechi18, al-Bassa yakava nzvimbo yekukakavadzana pakati paZahir al-Umar nemachinda eJabal Amil pasi paSheikh Nasif al-Nassar, nepo pasi pemutsivi wake, Jezzar Pasha, al-Bassa yakaitwa nzvimbo yekutonga ye nahiya munenge muna 1770. Muna 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte akarondedzera al-Bassa semusha we600 Metawalis. Mepu yakaitwa naPierre Jacotin kubva pakupinda kwaNapoleonyegore iroro yakaratidza nzvimbo yacho, yainzi El Basa. 