- Equatoria
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Equatorium "Equatoria (Al-Istiwa'iyah in Arabic) began as a province of
Egypt , located in the extreme south of present-daySudan along the upper reaches of theWhite Nile . It also contained most of Northern part of present dayUganda includingAlbert Lake . It was an idealistic effort to create a model state in the interior ofAfrica that never consisted of more than a handful of adventurers and soldiers in isolated outposts.Equatoria was established by
Samuel Baker in 1870.Charles George Gordon took over as Governor in 1874, followed byEmin Pasha in 1878. The Mahdist Revolt of the 1880s finally put an end to the pretense, and Equatoria ceased to exist as an Egyptian outpost in 1889. Later British Governors included Martin Parr. Important settlements in Equatoria included Lado,Gondokoro ,Dufile andWadelai . The last two are in the part of Equatoria that is now inUganda .Under Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, most of Equatoria became one of the eight original provinces. The state of
Bahr al Ghazal was split from Equatoria in 1948. In 1976, Equatoria was further split into the states of East andWest Equatoria . The region has been troubled with violence during both the First andSecond Sudanese Civil War s, as well as the anti-Ugandan insurgencies based in Sudan, such as theLord's Resistance Army andWest Nile Bank Front .References
* R. Gray, "A History of the Southern Sudan, 1839-1889" (London, 1961)
*Iain R. Smith : "The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-1890",Oxford University Press , 1972ee also
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