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Tartary (Cartography 🗺️)
Tartary or Tatary 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 Pacific Ocean, and the northern borders of Medieval China, India, and Persia, at a time when this region was largely unknown to European geographers. The active use of the toponym can be traced f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary
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