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Onsu
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English
Onsu County
Etymology
From en ug ئونسۇ, from ug ئون ten + ug سۇ river, literally ten rivers.
Proper noun
en county prefecture/Aksu ar/Xinjiang c/China.
en 2007 Ildikó Bellér-Hann Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia https://books.google.com/books?id=NKCU3BdeBbEC w:Ashgate 978 0 7546 7041 4 276989221 159 https://books.google.com/books?id=NKCU3BdeBbEC&pg=PA159 Qirmish Ata Mazar is located in a mountain valley 61 km west of Onsu county town, in Aqsu prefecture.
en October 10, 2009 Human Rights Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2009 https://archive.org/details/gov.gpo.fdsys.CHRG-111hhrg52610/ w:Congressional-Executive Commission on China 130 https://archive.org/details/gov.gpo.fdsys.CHRG-111hhrg52610/page/n135/ The Wensu (Onsu) county government in Aqsu district reported taking steps to monitor returnees from pilgrimages in order to “place them in the ‘line of vision’ of the government and Party committee” and “understand” the activities they participated in while abroad.
en 2010 J. Todd Reed; Diana Raschke The ETIM: China's Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat https://archive.org/details/etimchinasislami00reed/ Praeger 613324636 149 https://archive.org/details/etimchinasislami00reed/page/n159/ In December 1994, Abudumijit Muhammatkelim organized a terrorist group with himself as the head, which plotted acts of violence and terror with purchased and homemade weapons and ammunition. He directed his followers to commit a robbery on February 10, 1996, in Onsu County of Xinjiang, which involved the gun killing of two policemen and a herdsman.
en 2014 Michael Dillon Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=J2MtBAAAQBAJ w:Routledge 978-0-415-58443-2 2014004465 911924891 197 https://books.google.com/books?id=J2MtBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197 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 2019 https://www.dailysabah.com/op-ed/2019/12/02/what-can-the-muslim-world-do-to-save-the-uighurs-and-islam-in-china What can the Muslim world do to save the Uighurs and Islam in China? Olsi Jazexhi w:Daily Sabah On Aug. 20, our hosts sent us to the city of Aksu to visit the Onsu County Vocational Skills Training Center. Here we were supposed to meet the “extremists and terrorists” whom China was “deradicalizing.” https://web.archive.org/web/20260925043700/https://www.dailysabah.com/op-ed/2019/12/02/what-can-the-muslim-world-do-to-save-the-uighurs-and-islam-in-china 25 September 2026
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Synonyms
from Mandarin Chinese en Wensu, en Wen-su, en Wensuh
Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 溫宿 Wēnsù
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko
Uyghur: ug ئونسۇ
See also
Zhetysu, Aksu, Kizilsu
Further reading
Onsu, Wensu
en 1998 Wensu Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 3436 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/3436/ 2
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