ANCIENT ORIGINS
Tartary on Old Maps and the Story of a History Erased
Open a European map from the seventeenth century and the words Tartary or Tartaria stretch across the land from Central Asia to Siberia and northeastern Asia. Some maps mark Chinese Tartary, some Muscovite Tartary, some Independent Tartary.
Read in Vietnamese →Open a European map from the seventeenth century and the words Tartary or Tartaria stretch across the land from Central Asia to Siberia and northeastern Asia. Some maps mark Chinese Tartary, some Muscovite Tartary, some Independent Tartary. Every map draws the borders a little differently, yet the name returns on map after map, long enough for the viewer to feel that one empire once stood there.
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