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Aksu
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ákšu
English
Aksu City
Etymology
Borrowed from en ug ئاقسۇ white river, from en chg آقسُو Āqsū, chg اکسو Aksū. Compare with tr Aksu white river.
Pronunciation
äkso͞oʹen 1952 Aksu or Aqsu Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 29 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/29/ 1
Proper noun
en prefecture autonomous region/Xinjiang country/China.
en 1995 Gregor Benton; Alan Hunter Wild Lily, Prairie Fire https://archive.org/details/wildlilyprairief0000unse_d3u7/ Princeton, NJ w:Princeton University Press 0-691-04358-2 95-5200 469093196 223 https://archive.org/details/wildlilyprairief0000unse_d3u7/page/223/ The representative took the hint, and decided after consulting the masses to approach the Aksu Prefecture Administrative Office. When they arrived for negotiations, the office made an emergency call to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee in Urumqi, which telegraphed back that the problem should be dealt with on the spot.
en 2013 Paul A. Marshall Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians https://archive.org/details/persecutedglobal0000mars/ Thomas Nelson (publisher) Thomas Nelson 978-1-4002-0441-0 798061689 22 https://archive.org/details/persecutedglobal0000mars/page/22/ Shaya prison is located in remote Aksu Prefecture, about seven hundred miles southwest of the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi.
en https://archive.org/details/flightofbighorse00hedi/ 2014 Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century Michael Dillon w:Routledge 197 Units of the 5th Division of the 2nd Army also marched in from Yanqi, and, on 29 December 1949, arrived in Onsu (Wensu) County in Aksu Prefecture.
en county-level city prefecture/Aksu autonomous region/Xinjiang country/China.
en https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6849/ 1946 The Cultural History of the Hindus Chandra Chakraberty Vijaya Krishna Brothers Calcutta 267 The Hans strove to capture the important trade route with the west through Hami, Aksu, Kashgar, Turfan and Khotan.
en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-04-26_22_16/ April 26, 1981 Youths resist Communist pressure Free China Weekly XXII 16 Taipei 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-04-26_22_16/ A report from the China mainland indicated that scores of demonstrating youths were killed last November in Aksu in the western province of Sinkiang, after 70,000 of them rusticated from Shanghai staged a demonstration.They took over the office building of the "agriculture bureau" and demanded that the Peiping regime allow them to return to Shanghai. Communist "vice premier" Wang Chen was forced to hurry to Aksu from Peiping and instructed troops to suppress the youths by any means, even if it meant bloodshed.
en 1989 w:Colin Thubron The Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom https://archive.org/details/silkroadbeyondce00thub/ w:Simon and Schuster 0-671-70175-4 906541628 15 https://archive.org/details/silkroadbeyondce00thub/page/15 From here the Silk Road bifurcates. In times of unrest, the caravans would move south through the sparse towns along the foot of the Kunlum Mountains, protected from robbers by the Taklimakan desert. But more often they would brave the great northern route with its line of rich oases - Turfan, Korla, Kuqa, Aksu - and hope to evade marauders from the grasslands just to the north.
Aksu River (Xinjiang).
Any of various places in Kazakhstan.
Any of various places in Turkey.
en Turkish.
Synonyms
location in Xinjiang, China from Mandarin Chinese en Akesu, en A-k'o-su
location in Xinjiang, China en Aqsu
Translations
Aksu, Xinjiang
Bengali: bn আক্সু
Chagatai: chg آقسُو Āqsū, chg اکسو Aksū
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 阿克蘇 Ākèsū
Finnish: fi Aksu
Kazakh: kk Ақсу
Manchu: mnc ^ᠠᡴ᠋ᠰᡠ
Tocharian: xtb Bharuka
Turkish: tr Aksu
Uyghur: ug ئاقسۇ
Aksu, Kazakhstan
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 阿克蘇 Ākèsū
Kazakh: kk Ақсу
Turkish: tr Aksu
Aksu, Turkey
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 阿克蘇 Ākèsū
Kazakh: kk Ақсу
Turkish: tr Aksu
Turkish surname
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 阿克蘇 Ākèsū
Kazakh: kk Ақсу
Turkish: tr Aksu
See also
Zhetysu
Onsu
Kizilsu
References
Further reading
en 2008 Aksu Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 52 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/52/ 2
Anagrams
en aksu Kasu Kaus Sauk auks skua
Turkish
tr:
thumb|Aksu ilçesi, Antalya
thumb|Aksu ilçesi, Isparta
Etymology
tr :inh ota:آقصو<tr:Aksu> :af<surf> ak<t:white> su<t:water> + 1
Pronunciation
tr /akˈsu/
Proper noun
tr district province/Antalya c/Turkey
tr town/and/district province/Isparta c/Turkey
tr unisex a
Declension
Derived terms
tr Aksulu