Kodok
Kodok
(ˈkəʊdɒk)Fa•sho•da
(fəˈʃoʊ də)n.
单词 | kodok |
释义 | KodokKodok(ˈkəʊdɒk)Fa•sho•da(fəˈʃoʊ də)n. KodokKodok(kō`dŏk), formerlyFashoda(fəshō`də), town, NE South Sudan, on the White Nile. In 1898 it was the scene of the Fashoda IncidentFashoda Incident, 1898, diplomatic dispute between France and Great Britain. Toward the end of the 19th cent., while Britain was seeking to establish a continuous strip of territory from Cape Town to Cairo, France desired to establish an overland route from the Red Sea to the ..... Click the link for more information. , which brought Britain and France to the brink of war and resulted, in 1899, in an Anglo-French agreement establishing the frontier between Sudan and the French Congo along the watershed between the Congo and Nile basins. The formation of an Anglo-French entente in 1904 prompted the British to change the town's name in hopes of obliterating the memory of the incident. |
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