Artux

English thumb|Map including Artux A-t'u-shih (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1983) Alternative forms en Artush Etymology From en ky ارتىش artış. Proper noun en county-level city Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture/Kizilsu ar/Xinjiang c/China. en https://archive.org/details/chinaoffbeatentr0000schw/ 0-312-13304-9 1985 China Off the Beaten Track Brian Schwartz w:St. Martin's Press New York 5 From Urumqi to Kashgar buses take an average of three or four days to cover 940 miles passing through Turpan, Korla, Kuche, Aksu and Artux. en 1989 Che Muqi (zh :zh:车慕奇 车慕奇) zh:丝绸之路今昔<t:The Silk Road, Past and Present> https://archive.org/details/silkroadpastpres0000chem/ w:Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 0-8351-2100-3 717480364 242–243 https://archive.org/details/silkroadpastpres0000chem/page/243/ We drove west on the smooth highway for about two hundred kilometres and arrived in Artux (Artush) County. This area has more abundant water resources than Aksu Prefecture. We crossed bridges several times on the way and also saw small rippling lakes that the local people call haizi. We had already entered the most fertile area in southern Xinjiang. Not far from Artux is Kashi, the largest city in southern Xinjiang, but to retrace the route where the Silk Road left China, we did not go to Kashi first. Instead we went west from Artux for some hundred kilometres and arrived in Wuqia County near China's westernmost tip. en 2012 Simon Foster; Candice Lee; Jen Lin-Liu; Beth Reiber; Tini Tran; Lee Wing-sze; Christopher D. Winnan Frommer's China https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781118094198/ 5th w:John Wiley & Sons 978-1-118-09419-8 766322081 25882872M 325 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781118094198/page/325/ Eric Shipton, Britain's final representative in Kashgar and an accomplished mountaineer, failed several times from the southern route via Muk and Mingyol, finally gaining access from the north via Artux and Karakum. Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Atushi, en A-t'u-shih Translations county-level city in Xinjiang Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 阿圖什 Japanese: ja Korean: ko Kyrgyz: ky ارتىش Cyrillic: ky Артыш Uyghur: ug ئاتۇش Cyrillic: ug Атуш Latin: ug Atush Further reading en 2008 Artux 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 202 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/202/ 3 Anagrams en artux Truax