Akin

[From a and kin.] Related to; allied to by bicod; -used of persons. "I could wish that being thy sister in nature, I were not so far off akin in fortune." - Sidney. -Allied to by nature; partaking of the same properties; used of things. Akin's, in Georgia, a thriving township of Spalding county. Akiska', or AKHAL/ZIKH, a town of Ru ia in Asia, Georgia, on an affluent of the Kur; 115 miles W. of Tiflis. Lat. 31° 45′ N.; Lon. 43° 1' E. It was formerly the cap. of a Turkish pachalic, and the seat of the slave-trade. Per about 15,000, two-thirds Armenians. Ak'ka, a town in the Sahara, on the borders of Morocco, and a caravan station between Timbuctoo and Morocco. Lat. 28° 30' N.; Lon. 0° 10′ W. Akmetchet, or AKMEDSHID. See SIMFEROPOL. A-knee', adv . On the knee. Akmolinsk, a province of Siberia, organized in 1867 from part of the Kirghiz territory. Capital , Akmolinsk, 200 miles southwest of Omsk. Pop . (1897) estimated at 5,200. Akrab'bim. ( Anc . Geog.) A pa near the country of the Ammonites, where Judas Maccabeus gained a great victory over the Edomites (1 Mc. v. 3.) It is said to be the line of chalk cliffs, seven or eight miles long, which cro the Arabah from N.W. to S.E., six or eight miles from the Dead Sea. Akrey'ri, a Danish town, on the Eyianfiord, Iceland, Las a good harbor, and is, after Reykiavik, the most important place for trade in Iceland. Lat. 65° 40′ N. Akron', in New York , a village of Erie co., 268 m. W. of Albany. Ak'ron, in Ohio , the principal city of Summit co., at the junction of the Ohio and Erie, and Ohio and Pennsylvania canals, 38 m. S. of Cleveland. By a succe ion of locks, the O. and E. canal rises suddenly at Akron to the Portage Summit. A. is a flourishing place; there are several banks, and important manf. of agricultural implements, flour, books, . Pop . (1890), 27,601 Ak's era i, a town of Turkey in Asia, Karamania, 90 miles N.E. of Koneieh; pop . about 10,000. Ak'-shehr, (the White City ,) a town of Turkey in Asia, Karamania. Lat. 38° 13' N.; Lon. 31° 30′ E. It is situated near the S. extremity of a considerable lake, at the foot of a mountain chain, in a rich and well watered country. It is mentioned in Turkish annals as the place where Bajazet was confined by Timour, and where he expired. Pop . about 5,000.