AICRON, a t. of the state of Ohio, N. America, the capital of Summit co. It is situated 36 tn. s. of Cleveland, on the Little Cuyahoga, which falls into lake Erie, and at the junction of the Ohio and Erie canal with the Pennsylvania and Ohio .canal. at the highest point in the course of the former canal, whence its name (Gr., a summit). It is also on the Cleveland and Zanesville railway. It was first settled in 1825. It has woolen factories, flour-mills, a steam-engine factory, a stove factory, etc. The machinery of all its public works is driven by water-power. It is a place of considerable trade. Pop. '80, 16,462.
(white city, anc. Philo2nelion), a city of Asiatic Turkey, in the pashalic of Karaman, five m. s. of the salt lake of Ak-shehr, at the entrance of an extensive mountain valley. The houses rise in successive terraces on the slope of a bill. There is here a celebrated carpet manufactory. Pop. estimated at 6000.
t. of eastern Turkestan, 260 m. n.e. from Yarkand, on an affluent of the Tarim, and on the southern base of the Thian-shan mountains. It was formerly the residence of the kings of Kashgar and Yarkand. While eastern Turkestan formed part of the Chinese empire it was an important garrison t. In 1867 it was captured by the Atalik-Ghazee. In 1716 it was nearly destroyed by an earthquake, and in the beginning of the present century suffered terribly from an inundation. it is celebrated for its manu factures of cotton cloth and saddlery. It is much resorted to by caravans as an entreptit of commerce between Russia, Tartary, and China. The pop. is very variously estimated from 6000 to 20,000 and upwards. Sheep and cattle arc extensively reared in the neighborhood. See TURKESTAN, EASTERN.