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Traditionally the home of the [[Lugbara people]],<ref>Middleton, p.11.</ref> the area became part of the Ottoman-[[Egypt]]ian province of [[Equatoria]], and was first visited by Europeans in 1841/42, becoming an ivory and slave trading centre.<ref>Canby, p. 497.</ref> Lado, as part of the [[Bahr-el-Ghazal]], came under the control of the British and in 1869 Sir [[Samuel Baker]] created an administration in the area, based in [[Gondokoro]], suppressed the slave trade and opened up the area to commerce.<ref>"Sir Samuel White Baker" (2013), ''Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition'', 1.</ref>
[[Charles George Gordon]] succeeded Baker as Governor of Equatoria in 1874 and noting the unhealthy climate of Gondokoro, moved the administrative centre downstream to the town of [[Lado]].<ref>
Russian explorer [[Wilhelm Junker]] arrived in Lado in 1884, fleeing the Mahdist uprising imn the Sudan, and made Lado his base for his further explorations of the region.<ref>Middleton, p. 300</ref>
==Belgian rule==
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