Aykol

Proper noun

Aykol

1. A town in Aksu, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • On August 7, on the eve of the Eid holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, police in Aykol township, Aksu prefecture, reportedly sought to prevent residents from another village from engaging in cross-village worship,¹⁰⁵ and detained several Uyghur men for engaging in "illegal...2013 October 10, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Annual Report 2013, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 169
   • A poor villager named Habibulla Mamut from Aykol Town of Aksu City applied for a position with an electrical appliance company in Hangzhou at a local job fair, was offered the post, and earned RMB55,000 that year, raising himself and his family out of poverty.2020 September 17, “Full Text: Employment and Labor Rights in Xinjiang”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2020
2. A township in Poskam, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • August 2013 was a particularly violent month. On the eve of the Id al Fitr festival that signifies the end of Ramadan, clashes between police and local Uyghurs in Kargilik (Yecheng) County, which lies between Kashgar and Khotan, left between fifteen and twenty-two Uyghurs dead and there was further...2019, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century: Islam, Ethnicity and Resistance, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 264
3. A village in Aykol, Poskam, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   Synonyms:

   A-yin-k’o