Jur River: History
Among the ethnic groups living in the Jur basin are the Dinka, and Luo who call themselves Jo-luo. "Jur" is a Dinka word for "alien" or "non-Dinka".
The Jur River was explored by John Petherick between 1853 and 1865. In 1897–98 the Jur River was carefully surveyed throughout its course by Lieutenant A.H. Dyé and other members of a French mission under Jean-Baptiste Marchand during the Scramble for Africa.
In 1969, during the First Sudanese Civil War, a Zande rebel movement called the Sue River Revolutionary Government formed along the Sue River stretch of the Jur.