"Tartary, a vast country in the northern parts of Asia, bounded by Siberia on the north and west: this is called Great Tartary. The Tartars who lie south of Muscovy and Siberia, are those of Astracan, Circassia, and Dagistan, situated north-west of the Caspian-sea; the Calmuc Tartars, who lie between Siberia and the Caspian-sea; the Usbec Tartars and Moguls, who lie north of Persia and India; and lastly, those of Tibet, who lie north-west of China." - Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. III, Edinburgh, 1771, p. 887.

Now compare to the description given by Wikipedia, "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, settled mostly by Turko-Mongol peoples after the Mongol invasion and the subsequent Turkic migrations."

Tartary was not a tract. It was a country.​

And to add some credibility (or to take away some) to the story, below you can find an excerpt from the CIA document declassified in 1998, and created in 1957.

Link to the document on the CIA website: NATIONAL CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER COMMUNISM

Today, we have certain appearance related stereotypes. I think we are very much off there. It looks like Tartary was multi-religious, and multi-cultural. One of the reasons I think so is the tremendous disparity between what leaders like Genghis Khan, Batu Khan, Timur aka Tamerlane looked like to the contemporary artists vs. the appearance attributed to them today.

Today: Genghis Khan - Batu Khan - Timur

Here is how 15-18th century books saw these three

Genghis Khan

with wife here

Timur - Tamerlane

Batu Khan​

Well, I could not find any 17th/18th century Batu Khan images, but apparently in Turkey we have a his bust, and Batu Khan looks nothing like what we would expect.

The other reason why I think Tartary had to be multi-religious, and multi-cultural is its vastness during various moments in time. For example in 1652 Tartary appears to have control over the North America.

Related thread: 16th century Tartarian King Tartarrax ruled Quivira Regnum in North America

The Coverup​

The official history is hiding a major world power which existed as late as the 19th century. Tartary was a country with its own flag, its own government and its own place on the map. Its territory was huge, but somehow quietly incorporated into Russia, and some other countries. This country you can find on the maps predating the second half of the 19th century.

Ngram by Google Books shows how Tartary was quietly put away.

Yet, some time in the 18th century Tartary Muskovite was the biggest country in the world: 3,050,000 square miles.

Some of the maps showing Tartary

Tartary had its own language, flag, crest, its own emperor, and of course its own people.

The Kings of Tartary

Genealogy Of The Former Tartar Emperors

Family tree of the descendants of Ghengis Khan, with a map showing the Tartar Empire.

The people of Tartary.

The flag and crest of Tartary had an owl depicted on it. The emperor's flag contained a griffin on a yellow background.

There were multiple publications listing the country of Tartary and its flag/crest. Some of those publications came out as late as 1865.

Tartary was not China

It is also worth mentioning that in the British Flag Table of 1783, there are three different flags listed as a flag of the Tsar of Moscow. There is also an Imperial Flag of Russia as well as multiple naval flags. And all of them are proceeded by a flag of the Viceroy of Russia.

Significance of the Viceroy is in the definition of the term. A viceroy is a regal official who runs a country, colony, city, province, or sub-national state, in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory. Our official history will probably say that it was the Tsar of Russia who would appoint a viceroy of Moscow. I have reasons to doubt that.

Why is the flag of the Viceroy of Moscow positioned prior to any other Russian flag? Could it be that the Viceroy of Moscow was superior to its Czar, and was "supervising" how this Tartarian possession was being run?

There is a growing opinion in Russia that French invasion of Russia played out according to a different scenario. The one where Tsar Alexander I, and Napoleon were on the same side. Together they fought against Tartary. Essentially France and Saint Petersburg against Moscow (Tartary). And there is a strong circumstantial evidence to support such a theory.

Questions to Answer

1. Saint Petersburg was the capitol of Russia. Yet Napoleon chose to attack Moscow. Why?

2. It appears that in 1912 there was a totally different recollection of the events of 1812. How else could you explain commemorative 1912 Russian medals honoring Napoleon?

   
   And specifically the one with Alexander I, and Napoleon on the same medal. The below medal says something similar to, "Strength is in the unity: will of God, firmness of royalty, love for homeland and people"

    

I have hard time imagining the below two guys on the same medal in "Love and Unity"...

1. Similarity between Russian and French uniforms. There are more different uniforms involved, but the idea remains, they were ridiculously similar.

How did they fight each other in the dark?

Russia: Regular Army

France: Regular Army

There was one additional combat asset officially available to Russians in the war of 1812. And that was the Militia. It does appear that this so-called Militia, was in reality the army of Tartary fighting against Napoleon and Alexander I.

Russian Volunteer/Militia Units... Tartarians?

More on uniforms: Uniforms: Old World Order vs. New World Order
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1. Russian nobility in Saint Petersburg spoke French well into the second half of the 19th century. The general explanation was, that it was the trend of time and fashion. Google contains multiple opinions on the matter. Following the same logic, USA, Britain and Russia should've picked up German after the victory in WW2.

2. This one I just ran into: 19th-century fans were totally into a Napoleon/Alexander romance.

Related SH Discussions​

16th century Tartarian King Tartarrax ruled Quivira Regnum in North America​
Tartarian Language and Alphabet​
Pyramids with tombs of the Tartarian Kings?​
Tartaria: The Hidden Truth - essay by Marcia Ramalho​
Tartarian Fortresses? Jongs aka Dzongs in Lhasa, Tibet: Gyantse, Phari, Chitishio, etc​
Tartarian Professional Knights: Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg​
Prophecy of Paul Grebner and Tartaria​
The great Tartar wall in China​
Tartaria: formerly known as Scythia​
More here: Tartary a.k.a. Tartaria

Books and Publications

History Of Mufcovy Tartary Perfia And Other Countries
History of the two Tartar conquerors of China : including the two journeys into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verhiest
Narrative of a pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary
Tibet, Tartary And Mongolia Ed. 2nd
Travels In Ladak, Tartary, And Kashmir
Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey
A pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, to the frontiers of China, the Frozen Sea, and Kamtchatka
Travels In Tartary Omce Company And News From Tartary
With Peter Fleming in Tartary
A voyage to Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, Tartary, and various parts of coast of China
Tibet, Tartary, and Mongolia ; their social and political condition, and the religion of Boodh, as there existing
Visits To High Tartary, Yarkand, And Kashghar
The history of Genghizcan the Great, first emperor of the antient Moguls and Tartars
The voyages and travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the great Duke of Muscovy

I think there is enough circumstantial evidence to justify a deeper look into who fought who, and why this Tartary country is so little known about. And the main question out of this all should be what is the purpose of misleading generations of people? It appears there is something tremendously serious hidden in our recent history.

SOURCE: Tartary - an Empire hidden in history. It was bigger than Russia once...