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Lado is a small settlement in 
Central Equatoria
Central Equatoria is a state in South Sudan. With an area of , it is the smallest of the original South Sudanese states. Its previous name was Bahr al-Jabal (also Bahr-el-Jebel), named after a tributary of the White Nile that flows through the s ...
in South Sudan
South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuëny Thudän), is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the C ...
, on the west bank of the White Nile
The White Nile ( ar, النيل الأبيض ') is a river in Africa, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile, the other being the Blue Nile. The name comes from the clay sediment carried in the water that changes the water to a pale color. ...
. It is situated north of the modern-day city of Juba
Juba () is the capital and largest city of South Sudan. The city is situated on the White Nile and also serves as the capital of the Central Equatoria State. It is the world's newest capital city to be elevated as such, and had a populatio ...
.
When General Gordon was appointed governor of the Egyptian territory of Equatoria
Equatoria is a region of southern South Sudan, along the upper reaches of the White Nile. Originally a province of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, it also contained most of northern parts of present-day Uganda, including Lake Albert and West Nile. It ...
in 1874, he moved his capital from Gondokoro
Gondokoro island is located in Central Equatoria. The island was a trading-station on the east bank of the White Nile in Southern Sudan, south of Khartoum. Its importance lay in the fact that it was within a few kilometres of the limit of naviga ...
to Lado, which had a healthier climate.
In 1878 Emin Pasha
185px, Schnitzer in 1875
Mehmed Emin Pasha (born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer; March 28, 1840 – October 23, 1892) was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor of the Egyp ...
was appointed Bey of Equatoria
Equatoria is a region of southern South Sudan, along the upper reaches of the White Nile. Originally a province of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, it also contained most of northern parts of present-day Uganda, including Lake Albert and West Nile. It ...
, then nominally under Egyptian control, with his base at Lado.
At one point the settlement was capital of the Lado Enclave. Travelling through Africa, Russian explorer Wilhelm Junker
Wilhelm Junker ( rus, Василий Васильевич Юнкер; 6 April 184013 February 1892) was a Russian explorer of Africa. Dr. Junker was of German descent.
Born in Moscow, he studied medicine at Dorpat (now called University of Tart ...
stayed in Lado in 1884, and wrote complimentarily of its brick buildings and neat streets.Middleton, p. 300
References
Sources
* Middleton, J. (1971) "Colonial rule among the Lugbara" in ''Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960, vol. 3.'', (ed. Turner, V.), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. . Populated places in Central Equatoria Lado Enclave {{SouthSudan-geo-stub