Vasai, a city in Thane District, Maharashtra, India; known as Bassein during Portuguese rule.
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Pathein, the capital city of Ayeyarwady Division, Myanmar (Burma); formerly known as Bassein.
The structure was built using coarse buff coloured Kurla stone, with redstone from Bassein.
The region of Vasai (formerly known as Bassein), like Goa, was evangelized by the Portuguese missionaries in the sixteenth century.
Binnya Dhammaraza pacified Binnya Ran for a time by making him the heir-apparent and governor of Pathein (Bassein) and the entire Irrawaddy delta.
During this period Governor Nuno da Cunha learn that the Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat had sent his forces to built a small fort in Bassein.
During this period Portuguese built 3 churches in present day northern bassein for these converts: Manickpur "St.Michael Church"(1530), Nirmal (1557), Agashi (1568), Nandakhal (1573).
Mrauk U also sent in a naval flotilla that landed in Bassein (Pathein).
Bassein and Moulmein must also have attracted some Panthay settlement, the latter port being a terminus of the overland caravan trade from Yunnan in its own right, via the northern Thai trade route through Kengtung, Chiang Mai and Mae Sariang.
Bassein was seized on 19 May, and Pegu was taken on 3 June, after some sharp fighting round the Shwemawdaw Pagoda.