and for many years Grand-Bassam was inhabited only by squatters. Beginning in the late 1970s, the town began to revive as a tourist destination and craft centre. In March 2016, the town was targeted in an Islamist mass shooting which killed 19 people. Sports Woody Cote d'Ivoire Villages The eight villages of the sub-prefecture of Grand-Bassam and their population in 2014 were: Azuretti (1 168) Ebrah (805) Gbamblé (341) Grand-Bassam (74 671) Modeste (1 981) Mondoukou (1 400) Vitré 1 (2 482) Vitré 2 (1 180) References External links French West Africa World Heritage Sites in Ivory Coast Sub-prefectures of Sud-Comoé Communes of Sud-Comoé Ramsar sites in Ivory Coast Ivory Coast geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia