Definition of "Artush"

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.

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

A state-owned steel company from Jiangxi pledged to invest 7.5 billion yuan in the proposed Ganxin Iron and Steel plant in Artush, outside of Kashgar, with a projected annual production capacity of one million tons.

2007, James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, pages 378–379

I took the bus to Artush, which was about sixty miles to the north, and got off at a pass in the foothills of the Tianshan Mountains.

2009, Rebiya Kadeer, Alexandra Cavelius, “A Feather Fell Down From One Angel”, in Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China‎, Kales Press, page 133

The dome of a Uighur mosque in Artush, Xinjiang, was removed in 2018.

2019 November 3, Fred Hiatt, “In China, every day is Kristallnacht”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 2019-11-04, Opinions‎