02/07/2018 · The Volga-side region of Tatarstan is Russia’s heartland of Tatar culture, which is still proudly practised and preserved. Kazan Tatars make up about half the population of Tatarstan in modern times. There are still many ancient Tatar relics in Tatarstan today, scattered across the republic and in Kazan as well.

Tatar, also spelled Tartar, any member of several Turkic-speaking peoples that collectively numbered more than 5 million in the late 20th century and lived mainly in west-central Russia along the central course of the Volga River and its tributary, the Kama, and thence east to the Ural Mountains. The Tatars are also settled in Kazakhstan and, to a ...

The Tatar are a group of Turkic people with sizable colonies in virtually every republic of the former Soviet Union. Although most of them live around the Volga region, others inhabit Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, the Ukraine, and the Central Asian republics. The Tatar speak a language that is also called Tatar.

29/10/2020 · Moscow Tartary encompassed the Urals, Siberia, Central Asia, the Far East, Alaska and North America. According to the maps of the XVIII century, the border with Moscow Tatarstan was very close. Such a dangerous proximity was of great concern to the Romanovs.

26/08/2016 · There, or the first time, the term “Mongol-Tartar” was used to describe the empire that descended on Russia in the high middle ages. PN Naumov brought it into Russian textbooks starting only in 1823. Prior to this, it was unknown as an ethnic label. There is no mention of the “Mongols” or “Tartars” in the Old Russian chronicles.

the leadership of Batu Khan, the famous Tartar' invasion of Europe which resulted in Muscovite Russia being subjected to the yoke of the Golden Horde. It is not generally known in the West, however, that this invasion extended far beyond the steppelands of Russia; indeed it was the ambitious design of the Tartar leaders to conquer the whole of Europe.

04/07/2020 · “Tartary (Latin: Tartaria) or Great Tartary (Latin: Tartaria Magna) was a historical region in Asia located between the Caspian Sea-Ural Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Tartary was a blanket term used by Europeans for the areas of Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia unknown to European geography.