Bassar

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Bassar (also Bassari ) is a small town in northern Togo in the Kara region and the administrative center of the prefecture Bassar. The town is located 57 km north-west Sokodé. It is estimated that approximately 25,200 inhabitants has Bassar.

Bassar is the center of the settlement Ntcham, which bear the name Bi - tchambe or Bassari in the local designation. Since the mid 19th century Bassar is one of four located near population centers of Ntcham, most clans Bassar trace their origins back to the holy Dikre forest, which is located five kilometers north-west. The oral tradition can be traced back to chiefdoms end of the 18th century; Bassar probably had more importance as a center of iron working in the area of present-day Togo and for long-distance trade with iron. In a very small scale mining of iron ore is used in Bassar today. Bassar is on the edge of the Atakora mountains on a peneplain, which is in the west and east, bounded by some hills and small mountains that contain the iron-bearing rock.

The subjugation of the Togolese hinterland was carried out by the German colonial power the mid-1890s, 1897 was built a colonial slave station in the area Bassars and associated Bassar the County Sokodé - Bassar. Of economic interest for the German colonial administration were particularly the iron deposits to Bassar and extending through Bassar traditional trade routes. In the northern counties, the population was committed in an especially high degree of forced labor for the infrastructure and for trial plantings.

The soils in the area are relatively fertile, the subsistence of a special little yam varieties grown in shifting cultivation, next to thrive peanuts and millet, with a rotation in the two - to three-year growing cycle, followed by up to eight years of fallow. There are grown further brown beans, cassava and shea butter.

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Place in Bassar

House of the local king of Bassar

Local king (chief ) of Bassar