Aksu

Proper noun

Aksu

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...1995, Gregor Benton, Alan Hunter, editors, Wild Lily, Prairie Fire, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 223
   • Shaya prison is located in remote Aksu Prefecture, about seven hundred miles southwest of the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi.2013, Paul A. Marshall, Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22
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.1946, Chandra Chakraberty, The Cultural History of the Hindus, Calcutta: Vijaya Krishna Brothers, page 267
   • A report from the China mainland indicated that scores of demonstrating youths were killed last November in Aksu in the western province of Sinkiang, after 70,000 of them rusticated from Shanghai staged a demonstration.
   • They took over the office building of the "agriculture bureau" and demanded that the Peiping regime allow them to return to Shanghai. Communist "vice premier" Wang Chen was forced to hurry to Aksu from Peiping and instructed troops to suppress the youths by any means, even if it meant bloodshed.1981 April 26, “Youths resist Communist pressure”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 16, Taipei, page 1

   Synonyms:

   Akesu, A-k'o-su, Aqsu

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