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Map of independent Tartary (in yellow) and Chinese Tartary (in violet), in 1806.. Tartary (Latin: Tartaria; French: Tartarie; German: Tartarei; Russian: Тартария, romanized: Tartariya) or Tatary (Russian: Татария, romanized: Tatariya) was a blanket term used in Western European literature and cartography for a vast part of Asia bounded by the Caspian Sea, the Ural Mountains, the ...
Tatarstan, [a] officially the Republic of Tatarstan, [b] sometimes also called Tataria, [c] is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Volga Federal District; and its capital and largest city is Kazan, an important cultural centre in Russia. The region's main source of wealth is oil with a strong petrochemical industry.
It is located in the Baabda Kadaa at 1,400 m (4,600 ft) elevation. [35] Tarshish is a family name found among Jews of Ashkenazic descent. A variation on the name, Tarshishi, is found among the Lebanese, and likely indicates a family connection to the Lebanese village Tarshish.
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.
The Crimean Khanate, [b] self-defined as the Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak, [7] [c] and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary, [d] was a Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441–1783, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde.
Tartaria or Tataria can refer to: Tartary, a historical term for northern and central Asia; Tartarian Empire, a group of pseudoscientific conspiracy theories;
The territory of Tatarstan, a republic of the Russian Federation, was inhabited by different groups during the prehistoric period.The state of Volga Bulgaria grew during the Middle Ages and for a time was subject to the Khazars.
The southeastern part of the Strait of Tartary was the site of one of the tensest incidents of the Cold War, when on September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying 269 people including a sitting U.S. congressman, Larry McDonald, strayed into the Soviet air space and was attacked by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor just west of Sakhalin Island.