Acis was, in Greek mythology, a Sicilian youth who was often considered the son of Dionysus. He loved the nymphGalatea but was killed with a boulder by a jealous suitor, the CyclopsPolyphemus. Galatea turned his blood into the river Acis in Sicily.
... first permanent settlement on Sakhalin in 1857 as a Czarist penal colony; but the southern part of the island was held by the Japanese until 1875, when they ceded it to ...