Meaning of A-t'u-shih | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“The K'o-tzu-lo-su Kirghiz chou bordered on the K'o-shih chuan-ch'ü and its seat at A-t'u-shih was only twenty-five kilometers from K'o-shih shih.”

“The name⟳ Saifudin is a Chinese corruption of Saif-al-din Azia (or Seyfudin Azizov, the Russian variant), and it is transliterated into Chinese as Sai Fu-ting. The son of a businessman, he was born into a Uighur Muslim family in the small town of Artush (A-t’u-shih), located about 15 miles northwest of Kashgar, not far from the Russian border⟳.”

“The destination of the second excursion, led by envoy Forsyth himself and participated in, apart from Stoliczka, by Dr. Bellew, Capt. Chapman and Capt. Trotter, was Altyn-Artysh, situated approximately 23 miles to the north-east of Kashgar (now A-t'u-shih, the administrative centre of the Kyzyl-su Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture in the Hsin-chiang Uighur Autonomous Region), and its environs.”

“China's ethnic minority autonomous territorial and administrative units are: The Sinkiang Uyghur Autonomous region, capital Urumchi (Tihua). This has a majority Turkic population located in five chou (autonomous administrative districts). They are (1) The Qïrghïz Autonomous Chou ((K'o-tzu-lo-su (Qyzyl Su/Qïzïl Su)), center Artus (A-t'u-shih);[…]”

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