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Tartary
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Tartary
Tartary
(
Latin
:
Tartaria
) or
Great Tartary
(
Latin
:
Tartaria Magna
) was a name used from the
Middle Ages
until the twentieth century to designate the great tract of northern and central
Asia
stretching from the
Caspian Sea
and the
Ural Mountains
to the
Pacific Ocean
, inhabited mostly by Turkic peoples after the
Mongol-Turkic invasion
. It incorporated the current areas of
Pontic-Caspian steppe
,
Volga-Urals
,
Caucasus
,
Siberia
,
Turkestan
,
Mongolia
, and
Manchuria
.
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