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FASHODA (renamed, 1904, K000K)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 192 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
FASHODA (renamed, 1904, K000K) , a post on the west bank of the Upper Nile, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, in 9 53' N., 32 8' E., 459 M. S., by river, of Khartum. It is the headquarters of the mudiria (province) of the Upper Nile. The station is built on a flat peninsula connected by a narrow strip of
land
  with a
ridge
  which runs parallel with the river. The surrounding country is mostly deep swamp and the station is most unhealthy; mosquitoes are present in millions. The climate is always
damp
  and the temperature rarely below 98 in the shade. The government offices are well-built brick structures. In front of the station is a
long
  low
island
 , and when the Nile is at its lowest this channel becomes dry. Several roads from Kordofan converge on' the Nile at this point, and near the station is the residence of the mek, or king, of the
Shilluk
  tribe, whose designation of the post was adopted when it was decided to abandon the use of Fashoda. At Lul, r8 m. farther up stream, is an Austrian Roman Catholic mission station.
An Egyptian military post was established at Fashoda in 1865. It was then a trading station of some importance, slaves being the
chief
  commodity dealt in. In 18831884 the place fell into the hands of the Mandists. On the loth of July 1898 it was occupied by a French force from the Congo under Commandant J. B. Marchand, a circumstance which gave rise to a state of
great
  tension between
Great
  Britain and France. On the 11th of December following the French force withdrew, returning homevia Abyssinia (see AFRICA, 5, and
EGYPT
 : History, and Military Operations).


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