Aketao

English

ئاقتو ناھىيىسى
阿克陶站
Aketao Railway Station

Alternative forms

• A-k'o-t'ao (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 阿克陶 (Ākètáo).

Proper noun

Aketao

1. Synonym of Akto: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1996 July 18 [1996 July 10], Andre Grabot, “PRC: Uygur Rebels Claim More Attacks on Forces in Xinjiang”, in Daily Report: China, number 96-139, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Hong Kong AFP, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65, column 1:

     The Xinjiang Legal News said Awazi was arrested in June in Aketao County.
     According to the newspaper, Awazi had appointed himself imam, or senior Moslem cleric, in 1992 at a mosque in Aketao, where he organised 120 Moslem activists who criticised Communist Party policies and denounced party officials as “pagans.”

   • 1998, James D. Seymour, Richard Anderson, New Ghosts Old Ghosts Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:

     Aisha Awazi, Uyghur imam (prayer leader) of a mosque in Aketao, strongly critical of the Communists as “pagans.” According to the Xinjiang Legal News, he was arrested in Aketao County in July 1996.

   • 2018 December 4, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Holding Hundreds From Kyrgyz Village in ‘Political’ Re-education Camps”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[2], archived from the original on 2018-12-05‎^[3]:

     An ethnic Kyrgyz officer at the Charlong Township Police Station, in Kizilsu Kirghiz’s Akto (Aketao) county, recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that hundreds of residents of the town’s Payiz village—a Kyrgyz-populated area of more than 1,500 people—have been sent to the camps.

Translations

Akto — see Akto