 In 1198, King Aimery gave a large part of the income from Az-Zeeb to the Teutonic Order.In 1226, Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi described az-Zeeb as a large village on the coast whose name was also pronounced "az-Zaib".In 1232 it was the site of the Battle of Casal Imbert between German and French Crusaders as part of the War of the Lombards.