Tatarei

The Great Tartary in North and Central Asia (1754)

Carte de la Petite Tartarie from 1785 (essentially the Khanate of Crimea )

The map Tartaria, sive magni Chami Imperium (Amsterdam 1705) published by Nicolaas Witsen

a Tatar flag with a silant on a yellow background

Tatarei (also: Tartarei ) was the name for a large region in Central Asia , North Asia and parts of Eastern Europe until the end of the 18th century . This country was the homeland of the Tatars , as the Mongols and the Turkic peoples were generally referred to by the Europeans. The rulership of the Mongolian Empire and its successor states covered large parts of the Tatar region.

The historical name Tatarei was used by Europeans from the Middle Ages to the 19th century , but is no longer in use today. The Tatarei gradually lost its importance, as the political and ethnic conditions changed with the expansion of the Russian Empire and the Russian settlement and the process of assimilation by the Russian Empire was completed with the dissolution of Free Tartary at the beginning of the 19th century.

The Tatarei was divided into different parts, which were named as follows:

• The Little Tartary or European Tartary included the steppes of Eastern Europe north of the Black Sea and corresponded to the territory of the Khanate of Astrakhan , Kazan and in particular the Khanate of Crimea with the peninsula of Crimea and the regions on the lower Dnieper and Don .
• The Great Tartar, or Asian Tartary, comprised Central and Northern Asia.
• The High Tartar or Chinese Tartar comprised East Turkestan , Mongolia and - at least for some authors - also parts of the highlands of Tibet , i.e. areas that were under Chinese influence or at times belonged to the Chinese Empire .
• The Free Tartary called the Western Turkestan before it came under Russian rule.
• The Muscovite Tartary or Russian Tartary comprised parts of Siberia and Turkestan, which had come under Russian rule through the conquest of the Siberian Khanate .
• The Eastern Tartar included Manchuria and Eastern Siberia .

supporting documents

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3. ↑ Denis PETAU: The History of the World; Or, an Account of Time. Compiled by the Learned D. Petavius, and Continued by Others, to the Year ... 1659. Together with a Geographical Description of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. [Edited by RP] 1659 ( google.fi [accessed March 15, 2019]).