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Wau (Arabic: واو ''Wāw''; also Wow or Waw) is a city in northwestern South Sudan, on the western bank of the Jur River, in ''Wau County'', Western Bahr el Ghazal State. It lies approximately northwest of Juba, the capital and largest city in that country. == History == Wau was initially established as a ''zariba'' (fortified base) by slave-traders in the 19th century. During the time of condominium rule, the city became an administrative center. Burr and Collins in 1994 described Wau:〔 * Burr, J.M. and Collins, R.O. (1994) ''Requiem for the Sudan: War, Drought and Disaster Relief on the Nile''. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA, p. 74〕 as follows: ''No one has ever been “at home” in Wau. It is surrounded by a host of disorganized and diverse peoples . . . It was and remains a town belonging to no single ethnic group, deriving its importance only from its position as a commercial and administrative center . . . Located in the midst of the vast Nilotic plain hundreds of miles from nowhere, it was miserable under the best of circumstances . . . '' During the Second Sudanese Civil War, it was a garrison town of the Khartoum-based Sudanese Armed Forces, and was the scene of extensive fighting in the spring of 1998. Battles erupted again in the town in the spring of 2007, killing several hundred people. In 2010 the Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment (South Sudan) proposed to reshape the city as a giraffe.〔(A city shaped like a giraffe? ) Toronto Star, Wed Aug 18 2010, by Maggie Fick, Associated Pres〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wau, South Sudan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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