"Akesu" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1993, John W. Longworth, Gregory J. Williamson, “Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region”, in China's Pastoral Region: Sheep and Wool, Minority Nationalities, Rangeland Degradation and Sustainable Development, →OCLC, page 156",
          "text": "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 in Akesu Prefecture.",
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          "ref": "2005 November 1, Peter S. Goodman, “Oil Investors Tapped Out Of Wells”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-23",
          "text": "Some oil continued to gurgle to the surface. In 1987, the government for Akesu 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.",
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          "text": "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 and Akesu, Kuche, it was still quite difficult to go through because of the Bingdaban which is more than 4,000 meters high.",
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          "text": "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.",
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      "enpr": "äʹku̇so͞oʹ<ref><span class=\"citation-whole\"><span class=\"cited-source\">Leon E. Seltzer, editor (<span class=\"None\" lang=\"und\">1952</span>), “Aksu or Aqsu”, in <cite>The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World</cite>&lrm;<sup>[https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/]</sup>, Morningside Heights, NY&#58; [[:w&#x3A;Columbia University Press|Columbia University Press]], <small>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/802473294 →OCLC]</small>, [https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/29/ page <span class=\"None\" lang=\"und\">29</span>], column 1:</span> “<span class=\"h-quotation\"><span class=\"Latn e-quotation cited-passage\" lang=\"en\">Chinese ''Akosu'' or ''A-k’o-su'' (both&#x3A; äʹku̇so͞oʹ)</span></span>[[Category:English terms with quotations|HOUR]][[Category:English quotations with omitted translation|HOUR]]”</span></ref>"
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