Akron
city and county-seat of Summit co., O.; on the Baltimore and Ohio, the Erie, the Northern Ohio, and the Akron, Canton and Youngstown railroads, and the Ohio and Erie canal; 40 miles S. E. of Cleveland. It is surlakes; is rounded by many fresh-water lal the seat of Akron University (Universalist), and has several National banks, numerous manufactories, daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. In the decade 1910-1920 the city increased its induscenter of the rubber-making industry of the United States. Other industries, contrial importance greatly. It became the nected especially with the automobile industry, also became established. This condition is reflected in the greatly in- (1920) 208,435. creased population. Pop. (1910) 69,067; AKRON, MUNICIPAL UNIVER- SITY OF, an institution of higher learning in Akron, O., founded in 1872 as transferred to the city of Akron as the Buchtel College. In 1913 the college was nucleus of a municipal university, which came into existence on Jan. 1, 1914. The name of Buchtel College is retained for the College of Liberal Arts. There are were in the university 454 students and departments of co-operative engineering and home economics. In 1919 there departments of co-operative engineer- ing and home economics. In 1919 there Ph. D. were in the university 454 students and at the southern base of the Thian-shan mountains, formerly the capital of a separate khanate. In 1867 it became a AKYAB part of the state of Eastern Turkestan, under Yakub Beg, but was conquered again by China in 1877. It is celebrated for its manufactures of cotton cloth and saddlery, and is much resorted to by caravans, as an entrepôt of commerce between Russia, Tartary, and China. Pop. about 25,000.