What is Tartaria on Old Maps?

From the 16th to 18th centuries, hundreds of maps depicted a vast region in Asia labeled as Tartaria or Tartary. By the mid-19th century, however, this label had largely disappeared.

00:00 Intro
01:10 Contemporary History
07:08 Conspiracy

[GeographyGeek]

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[FurioSakari]

I’m Kazakh from Kazakhstan, my ancestors were Naimans to be exact. The thing that personally interests and makes me believe in this conspiracy theory is that, the huge central Asian and Siberian territory consist of thousands megalithic structures, ancients ruins, huge megalithic blocks like in Baalbek. Very little archeological excavations done. For example in parents village Arasan, there is a huge ancient granite query, soviets just found it and its still operational. In the surrounding mountainside there are ruins of ancients city was build out of that granite solely, but due to some catastrophic events, huge blocks were melted some scattered all over the area. The sight is and nature is astonishing, weird pyramid like structures, fundamentals of unknown wall spanning in precise square shaped formations. All these things are just there and no one cares.

[MaiDove]

It’s where Tartar sauce originated from.

[diyac]

Ok so I wonder a lot about this because my university football team back in the 80s and 90s was the Tartars. Not sure why, but they then made a name change in 1999 to the Warriors. They said “The Tartars nickname lasted until 1999 when the university changed it to "Warriors" due to a feeling that the Tartar name was dated and that not many people knew what a Tartar was.” It had to be something if the name was chosen in a poll in 1927 in Detroit.

[texasRoofDoctor]

Did anyone else catch the statement " i would rather read about historical conspiracies than live through them..."?
Well played in 2024, Sir.

[me-lovely]

I’m Romanian and they found on the territory of Romania about tartaria people whom they used to live on our land …more than that now the Chinese archaeologists are there together with Romanian ones together they are working on a site they found about Tartaria

[saraross]

They may be gone, but their famous steak recipe and seafood dip remain.

[GeographyGeek]

Corrections: Cavalry not Calvary. Different word. I may be pronouncing Tatar wrong which is a bit more embarrassing. It's TAH-tahr but I'm saying it more like TOT-er.

[Dmitriy_Pivko]

07:00 as a russian, who lives in Siberia, i would say that the language of todays tatars, from republic of Tatarstan and they neibouhr republic of Bashkortostan, they have a language close to arabic-tourcish roots.

[Artyomi]

As an ethnic Tatar, it hurts my ears whenever “tartar” is used in connection with us.

[keithyoder]

Excellent video. The first time I ever really noticed Tartaria was when I was studying Waldseemüller's 1507 world map. Tartaria. There it was just north of the Caspian Sea. Then year's later someone who knew I was a map guy asked me about the CT.

[ttapk]

And strait separating Sakhalin island from continent is still called Tatar (or Tartar) strait. It was called so because French explorer La Perouse still thought in the middle of XIX century that those vast lands called Tartaria.

[flouserschird]

Wow A real historical video on Tartaria that’s not showing pictures of the Chicago world fair 😂😂

[willa]

I don't know much about the Tartars, but there is something to the advanced civilization that flourished in ancient Russia and around the world.

[stephenlitten]

Actually been to Tatarstan. Nice place, nice people

[ApophisTwThousand]

Tartary is just the European name for central Asia and Siberia, inhabited by nomadic Turks, Manchus, and Mongols. Essentially, it's the place from which the hordes come from.

[Alarix]

I found an interesting connection in Czech language: while we call Tatar the members of Tatar nation, and we call even Tatarstan their state, and the sauce we call "Tatarská omáčka", i.e. we do not use the first "r" in the expression, we also have a loose term "Tramtárie" (which I could anglicise to "Tramtaria") which we use as a hypothetical far away country we know nothing about like proverbially "you can go to Tramtaria with it", or "we went to some complete Tramtaria" when we want to express a far away, possibly non-existing country or just that we were completely lost in the middle of nowhere. In certain phase of your narration, perhaps the 1700, the expression "Tramtaria" would be better fitting for the "unknown lands to the east of Ural" than to any particular country - basically we Europeans knew the land mass continued, but knew next to nothing about who ruled it.

[columbaorthodox]

Thank you for this most excellent video. It amazes me how many crazy theories are being expounded on the internet.
When I was a boy, my family was fortunate enough to have as a friend a man from Czechoslovakia who had traveled throughout much of this region. He always used the term Tatar. He had great respect for the people, who were still mostly tribal.

[mumblez]

It was not lost and still is not. Tartaria and it's people were absorbed by Russia. The land and people became Russia. This is why Tartar's are the largest minority group in Russia. They are still alive and well in small communities. I'm not exactly sure when this happened but I would imagine that Stalin had taken over Tartaria.

[ToMbA_La_BoMbA]

In primary school (late 80s, early 90s in Croatia) we learned about the Tatars who conquered all over Asia towards Eastern Europe.
They were never called Tartars.
So, there is that.