[1] It is considered part of the "seven tribes of Puka" (Albanian: shtatë bajrakët e Pukës) that inhabit the region.
An Antonio Cabazi lived in Lezhë in 1582, and a Luca Kabashi served as the parish priest of the Gashi in 1671.
It appears in the form Cabassi in an ecclesiastical report of 1621 by Giezzi Bianco, and then Gabasu in 1688, which was a wooden mountain fortress consisting of 200 homes and was labelled on a map by the Venetian cartographer Francesco Maria Coronelli.
In 1669, it was styled as Kabasci by Italian cartographer Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola, and in another map by Coronelli in 1691 as Kabasi.
A possible path of immigration from the south can be traced through the existence of a Kabashi vëllazëri in Gramsh, Elbasan, and another in Kruma.
A group of Kabashi emigrated to Prizren in 1736; the Russian consul of the time reported that their ancestors had arrived from the Janina region 400 years prior to his existence.
Other brotherhoods stemming from the Kabashi tribe include the Leshaj of Hajmeli and those of Kotrri and Skarramana in Zadrima, and the Laçaj of Pukë.