A-t'u-shih

From Mandarin 阿圖什 / 阿图什 (Ātúshí), Wade–Giles romanization: A¹-tʻu²-shih².^[1]

A-t'u-shih

1. Alternative form of Atushi (Artux)
   • 1963, Henry Guenter Schwarz, Policies and Administration of Minority Areas in Northwest China and Inner Mongolia, 1949-1959‎, volume 2 (PhD Thesis), University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, page 338:

     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.

   • 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965‎, volume 2, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 743, column 1:

     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.

   • 1982, Josef Kolmaš, Ferdinand Stoliczka (1838-1874): The Life and Work of the Czech Explorer in India and High Asia‎, University of Vienna, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-07, page 23:

     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.

   • 1984, Harold R. Battersby, Some Introductory Notes on Altaic and Uralic Studies for Potential Contributors to Ultimate Reality and Meaning‎, archived from the original on 27 June 2022, page 40:

     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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