• A-k'o-su(Wade–Giles)

From theHanyu Pinyin romanization of theMandarin阿克蘇 /阿克苏(Ākèsū).

• enPR:äʹku̇so͞oʹ^[1],äʹkōʹso͞oʹ^[2]

Akesu

1. Synonym ofAksu:theMandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1979 September 5 [1979 July 29], “Armymen Sink Wells”, inChina Report: Agriculture‎^[3],number52,Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumqi Xinjiang Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin,→OCLC,page45:

     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 inAkesu Prefecture, Xinjiang.

   • 1993, John W. Longworth, Gregory J. Williamson, “Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region”, inChina's Pastoral Region: Sheep and Wool, Minority Nationalities, Rangeland Degradation and Sustainable Development‎^[4],→ISBN,→OCLC,page156:

     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 inAkesu Prefecture.

   • 2005 November 1,Peter S. Goodman, “Oil Investors Tapped Out Of Wells”, inThe Washington Post‎^[5],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on23 March 2023‎^[6]:

     Some oil continued to gurgle to the surface. In 1987, the government forAkesu 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.

   • 2014, Xinping Li, “Transportation, Plentiful Money and Treasures”, inModern Xinjiang [活力新疆]‎^[7], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press [五洲传播出版社],→ISBN,→OCLC,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 andAkesu, Kuche, it was still quite difficult to go through because of the Bingdaban which is more than 4,000 meters high.

   • 2020 March 18,Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Missing Uyghur Brothers Confirmed Detained in Xinjiang Internment Camp”, in Elise Anderson, transl.,Radio Free Asia‎^[8], archived fromthe original onMarch 19, 2020‎^[9]:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Akesu.

• Akesu, A-k'o-su, Akosu at theGoogle Books Ngram Viewer.

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