Gondokoro

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Gondokoro, also Ismailia, is a place in the state of Central Equatoria ( Zentraläquatoria ) in southern Sudan.

Location

The place is located at the headwaters of the Nile, more precisely on the east bank of the Bahr al - Jabal, around 10 km north-east of Juba.

History

From time immemorial Gondokoro was a major market for ivory and slaves who were taken from there to Khartoum in the influence area of ​​Bari.

The area was first visited by Europeans in 1841, as an emitted by Muhammad Ali Pasha Expedition Gondokoro reached.

Early 1853 was built an Austrian station under the Pro-Vicar Ignaz Knoblecher in Gondokoro, but it has been abandoned due to very poor climate after his death on 13 April 1858 the following year.

On February 15, 1863, the explorer John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant met after their discovery of the sources of the Nile in Gondokoro on Samuel White Baker and his wife Barbara Maria Szasz, who traveled to the headwaters of the Nile.

To end the slave trade, equipped Ismail Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt, in 1871 an expedition from Baker, who annexed the surrounding area and named the place in honor of the Khedive Ismailia. He fortified the place, and put on a garrison. Gordon Pasha moved the station for climatic reasons, 1875, Lado.

During the Mahdi uprising in 1885 Gondokoro fell into the hands of the insurgents. After the destruction of the Mahdi state in 1898, the area fell into the hands of the British. It was the northernmost fortified point of the Protectorate of Uganda. Later it belonged to the province of Equatoria then within the Anglo -Egyptian Sudan.

The special importance Gondokoros was that the Nile from Khartoum to Gondokoro was navigable, since a shipping lane was cleared by the Sudd 1899-1903. Between Kahrtum and Gondokoro wrong once a month a steamer upriver and downriver 13 days 11 days required for the route, for example, in 1905 and could be booked with the tour operator Thomas Cook and Son.

Gondokoro lost after the establishment of Juba in 1922 and the extension of the boat line up there in importance. Through the Civil War in South Sudan, the connection was lost.

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