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Kodok


Kodok

(ˈkəʊdɒk) n (Placename) the modern name for Fashoda

Fa•sho•da

(fəˈʃoʊ də)

n. a village in the SE Sudan, on the White Nile: conflict of British and French colonial interests 1898 (Fasho′da In`cident). Modern name, Kodok.

Kodok


Kodok

(kō`dŏk), formerly

Fashoda

(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
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, 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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