aksu

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1. A prefecture of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   “The representative took the hint, and decided after consulting the masses to approach the Aksu Prefecture Administrative Office. When they arrived for negotiations, the office made an emergency call to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee in Urumqi, which telegraphed back that the problem should be dealt with on the spot.”

   “Shaya prison is located in remote Aksu Prefecture, about seven hundred miles southwest of the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi.”

   “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.”

2. A county-level city of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   “The Hans strove to capture the important trade route with the west through Hami, Aksu, Kashgar, Turfan and Khotan.”

   “From here the Silk Road bifurcates. In times of unrest, the caravans would move south through the sparse towns along the foot of the Kunlum Mountains, protected from robbers by the Taklimakan desert. But more often they would brave the great northern route with its line of rich oases - Turfan, Korla, Kuqa, Aksu - and hope to evade marauders from the grasslands just to the north.”

3. Aksu River (Xinjiang).
4. Any of various places in Kazakhstan.
5. Any of various places in Turkey.
6. A surname from Turkish.