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Tartaria map and description by Giovanni Botero from his "Relationi universali" (Brescia, 1599). Knowledge of Manchuria, Siberia and Central Asia in Europe prior to the 18th century was limited. The entire area was known simply as "Tartary" and its inhabitants "Tartars". [3]
Tartary, or Tartaria, is a historical name for Central Asia and Siberia. Conspiracy theories assert that Tartary, or the Tartarian Empire, was a lost civilization with advanced technology and culture. This ignores well-documented accounts of Tartary within the history of Asia. [1]
Map of Tartary (Land of the Tartars) After 20 years' study, Witsen published the first map of Siberia in 1690. This map represented the world from Nova Zembla to as far away as China. Witsen had discussed with the tsar the trade routes to Persia via the Caspian Sea and to China via Siberia.
Share of Tatars in regions of Russia, 2010 census "Tatar" [b] (/ ˈ t ɑː t ər z / TAH-tərz) [32] is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia.
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The 2010 census counted more than 500,000 people in Siberia defining their ethnicity as "Tatar". [5] About 200,000 of them are considered indigenous Siberian Tatars. [6] However, only 6,779 of them called themselves "Siberian Tatars". [5]
The Khanate of Kazan [a] was a Tatar state that occupied the territory of the former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, and parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its capital was the city of Kazan.
1905 map of Siberia. The Siberia Governorate was established in 1708 as part of the administrative reforms of Peter I. In 1719, the governorate was divided into three provinces, Vyatka, Solikamsk and Tobolsk. In 1762, it was renamed to Tsardom of Siberia (Сибирское царство).