Kizilsu

Kizil Su English Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture thumb|Map including Kizilsu He (a river name near 15⁰ on the map) (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1989) Etymology Borrowed from en ky كىزىلسۋ - / ky Кызылсуу red water, from ky кызыл red + ky суу water. Cognate with ug قىزىلسۇ. Pronunciation en en Proper noun en Kirgiz autonomous prefecture Uyghur autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China. en en 1979 Donald H. McMillen Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang, 1949-1977 https://archive.org/details/chinesecommunist0000mcmi/ w:Westview Press 0-89158-452-8 78-24645 470949538 45 https://archive.org/details/chinesecommunist0000mcmi/page/45/ On August 21, the Southern Xinjiang Administrative Office was established at Kazgar, with jurisdiction over the Aksu, Kazgar, Xiache, and Hetian Special Districts and the newly established Kizilsu A.Z. and Tash Kurghan A.X. en 1985 zh:社会生活<t:Life and Lifestyles> https://archive.org/details/lifelifestyles0000unse/ zh:《中国手册》<t:China Handbook Series> zh:《中国手册》编辑委员会<t:China Handbook Editorial Committee> Chen Zhucai Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 0-8351-1302-7 469444423 61 https://archive.org/details/lifelifestyles0000unse/page/61/ The Kirgizs. This nationality has a population of 113,999, of which about 80 per cent live in close communities in the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in the southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. en April 23, 1990 https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/23/world/beijing-reports-22-deaths-in-revolt-in-western-region.html Beijing Reports 22 Deaths In Revolt in Western Region w:New York Times Xinjiang provincial television said in a broadcast from Urumqi, the regional capital, that a revolt by a "small number of ruffians" was put down in the town of Baren in the Kizilsu Kirghiz autonomous prefecture on April 5 and 6. https://web.archive.org/web/20250321174956/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/23/world/beijing-reports-22-deaths-in-revolt-in-western-region.html 21 March 2025 en https://archive.org/details/chinasmuslims00dill/ 1996 0-19-587504-4 China's Muslims Michael Dillon w:Oxford University Press 10 The semi-nomadic Kyrgyz are spread throughout western and southern Xinjiang, but there is a significant concentration in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, set in the foothills of the Tianshan range which separates them from their kin in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Most Kyrgyz are herdsmen, tending flocks of sheep and camels and, like the Kazakhs, they moved their animals across the mountains according to the season until the Sino-Soviet dispute closed the border. Their language and customs are closely related to those of their Kazakh neighbours. en 2016 Alex Ryan Beijing Red https://archive.org/details/beijingred0000ryan/ Crooked Lane Books 978-1-62953-595-1 950454929 27210319M 45 https://archive.org/details/beijingred0000ryan/page/45/ An awkward silence persisted in the corridor of level six of the Artux People’s Hospital in Kizilsu Prefecture until at last the lone woman in the group finally spoke. Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Kezilesu, en K'o-tzu-le-su, en K'o-tzu-lo-su, en Kotzulosu, shortened en Kezhou possibly from Russian en Kizil-Su, en Kizil Su from Uyghur en Qïzïl Su, en Qïzïl-Su, en Qïzïl-su, en Qizil Su from Kyrgyz en Kyzyl-su Translations prefecture Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 克孜勒蘇 Kèzīlèsū Japanese: ja Korean: ko Polish: pl Kizilsu n Uyghur: ug قىزىلسۇ See also Other geographical terms with the -su (water/river) suffix: Aksu, Kyzyl-Suu, (Kyrgyzstan), Onsu, Zhetysu Other geographical terms with the word 'kizil' (red): Kiziloy, Kizilto, Kizil Caves