Deim Zubeir
Coordinates: 7 ° 43 ' N , 26 ° 12' E
Deim Zubeir ( Arabic Daim al-Zubair ) is a town in the state of Lol (until 2015 in Western Bahr el Ghazal ) in South Sudan .
history
The place originated as daim , i.e. H. as a settlement around a guarded slave camp ( zariba ), which the ivory and slave trader al-Zubayr Rahma founded in the early 1860s. Al-Zubayr was here on Khor Uyjuku (also Uyujuku or Uyuku ) in the field of Kreish Ndogo down after being at the Golo was met with resistance. Strategically located on the trade routes to Northern Sudan , Deim Zubeir became Zubayr's headquarters, from which extensive slave hunts and trading activities as far as Darfur and the Congo Basin began.
During the Mahdi uprising , the place declined.
In June 1889, the French invaded Deim Zubeir from Ubangi-Shari to bring the area under their control. The attempt to make South Sudan a French colonial area failed in the Faschoda crisis . In 1890 the Azande ruler Zemo Deim took Zubeir.
The British colonial power, which ultimately prevailed, relied on local rulers in the region, with ethnic groups without central authority being subordinate to the closest ruler. In Deim Zubeir, all residents were subordinate to either the ruler of the Ndogo district, the sultan of the Banda or an Azande sultan. From 1903 to 1906 Deim Zubeir was the capital of the Western District of Bahr al-Ghazal , after which Raja took over this function. In the 1920s the Catholic Verona Fathers opened a school. This was merged with the school in Raja - the only other school in the Western District - in the 1940s.
In the Second Civil War in South Sudan 1983-2005 Deim Zubeir was for most of the time under the control of the Sudanese government. From June to October 2001 the SPLA rebels were able to bring the place under their control.
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- ↑ Ahmad Alawad Sikainga: The western Bahr al-Ghazal under British rule, 1898-1956 , Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1991, ISBN 0896801616 , page ix
- ^ Edward Thomas: The Kafia Kingi Enclave. People, politics and history in the north-south boundary zone of western Sudan ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2010 (PDF; 2.5 MB), p. 163
- ^ Mareike Schomerus, Tim Allen et al .: Southern Sudan at odds with itself. Dynamics of conflict and predicaments of peace , p. 110
- ↑ Sikainga 1991, pp. 5-10
- ↑ Stefano Santandrea: A tribal history of the western Bahr El Ghazal ( Collana di Studi Africani 17 ), 1964, p. 286
- ↑ Sikainga 1991, pp. 17, 20f.
- ↑ Sikainga 1991, pp. 26f., 48, 110, 116
- ^ Douglas H. Johnson: The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars , James Currey Publishers, 2003 (African Issues), ISBN 9780852553923 , 217f.
