Place · city

Grand-Bassam

Grand-Bassam is a town on the coast of Ivory Coast, east of Abidjan. France signed treaties with local rulers and built a fort there in 1843, and it served as the first capital of the French colony from 1893 until yellow fever epidemics prompted the move to Bingerville in 1900. Its colonial quarter of merchant houses and public buildings was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012.

Grand-Bassam
Image: Joker-x http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Joker-x · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 1 state history

French Ivory Coast

See also

Cite this entry
APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Grand-Bassam. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/grand-bassam
MLA
“Grand-Bassam.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/grand-bassam. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Grand-Bassam.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/grand-bassam.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Grand-Bassam’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/grand-bassam (Accessed: ).

Last reviewed October 2026Random entry ↻