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(k ´d k) (KEY) , formerly Fashoda (f sh´d) (KEY) , town, SE Sudan, on the White Nile. In 1898 it was the scene of the Fashoda Incident, 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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