al-Bassa (البصّة)

Place

Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Place Name

al-Bassa (البصّة)

Place Description

A historic Palestinian village on the northern coastal plain, situated on the slopes of a rocky hill facing the Mediterranean and connected by a secondary road to the Acre–Beirut coastal highway. Its agricultural lands supported extensive cereal cultivation, particularly wheat and barley, as well as citrus, bananas, olives, fruit, vegetables, and other orchard crops; in the late Ottoman period, cotton was also among the crops on which taxes were paid.