Akesu

Ākèsū English Alternative forms en A-k'o-su Akosu Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 阿克蘇. Pronunciation äʹku̇so͞oʹen 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 Chinese Akosu or A-k’o-su (both: äʹku̇so͞oʹ) äʹkōʹso͞oʹen 1979 The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 10 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/n29/ A-k'o-su (äʹkōʹso͞oʹ) en A ke su Proper noun en Aksu: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name. en 5 September 1979 29 July 1979 Armymen Sink Wells China Report: Agriculture https://archive.org/details/jprs-report_jprs-74130/ 52 https://archive.org/details/jprs-report_jprs-74130/ Urumqi Xinjiang Regional Service cmn w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service 5760056 45 https://archive.org/details/jprs-report_jprs-74130/page/45/ In the past 1 year or so, a unit of the PLA capital construction engineer corps located some underground water sources and sank 30 earthen wells for local people in Akesu Prefecture, Xinjiang. en 1993 John W. Longworth; Gregory J. Williamson Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region China's Pastoral Region: Sheep and Wool, Minority Nationalities, Rangeland Degradation and Sustainable Development https://archive.org/details/chinaspastoralre0000long/ 0851988903 30158277 156 https://archive.org/details/chinaspastoralre0000long/page/156/ A fourth prefecture, Akesu, has been designated as a specialist semi-coarse wool growing area. Pure-bred sheep have been imported from Kazakhstan and elsewhere to upgrade the semi-coarse wool sheep in Akesu Prefecture. en November 1, 2005 w:Peter S. Goodman Oil Investors Tapped Out Of Wells w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230323173330/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2005/11/01/oil-investors-tapped-out-of-wells/536daf04-2188-4544-9270-8a4357e6378f/ 23 March 2023 0190-8286 2269358 https://archive.is/eyKc3 Some oil continued to gurgle to the surface. In 1987, the government for Akesu district, which includes Kuche, complained to Xinjiang provincial authorities that oil from the wells threatened local drinking supplies. Akesu sought and gained the power to allow villagers to collect whatever oil sprung from the wells. With local government encouragement, peasants with donkey carts began hauling away oil in buckets. en 2014 Xinping Li Transportation, Plentiful Money and Treasures Modern Xinjiang zh 活力新疆 https://archive.org/details/modernxinjianghu0000lixi/ Beijing China Intercontinental Press [zh 五洲传播出版社] 978-7-5085-2863-2 913453080 3 https://archive.org/details/modernxinjianghu0000lixi/page/3/ The distance between Hetian of southern Xinjiang and Tacheng of northern Xinjiang or Hami of eastern Xinjiang is about 2,700 km, and people had to travel 100 days to reach the destination. Though for the short straight-line distance between Yining and Akesu, Kuche, it was still quite difficult to go through because of the Bingdaban which is more than 4,000 meters high. en 2020-03-18 w:Shohret Hoshur; Joshua Lipes Elise Anderson Missing Uyghur Brothers Confirmed Detained in Xinjiang Internment Camp w:Radio Free Asia https://web.archive.org/web/20200319002814/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/brothers-03182020141713.html March 19, 2020 https://archive.ph/BdXaA Mehmut Memet, 23, and his mother, Ayturem Hudesh, went missing from their home township of Aqyar, in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture’s Uchturpan (Wushi) county, in 2017, Mehmut’s Turkey-based sister Zeytune Memet recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service. en Translations Aksu References Further reading Akesu, A-k'o-su, Akosu Anagrams en aeksu Ukase ukase en 3-syllable words