class="apple-converted-space"> Bassari wear. Since the mid 19th Century is one of four Bassar located
near population centers of Ntcham, most of Bassar clans trace their origin to
the holy Dikre- back forest
located five kilometers northwest. The
oral tradition can be traced to the late 18th chiefdoms Century traced; Bassar had probably
long been important as a center of the iron industry in the area of today's
Togo and for foreign trade with iron. A
very small scale in Bassar today the mining of iron ore operation. Bassar is on the edge of the Atakora Mountains on a peneplain , which is on the west and east by some hills and small
mountains that contain the iron-rich rocks.