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Definition of Tatary
1. Noun. The vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries. "Under Genghis Khan Tartary extended as far east as the Pacific Ocean"
Generic synonyms: Geographic Area, Geographic Region, Geographical Area, Geographical Region
Group relationships: Asia, Europe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tatary
Literary usage of Tatary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and by John Pinkerton, Samuel Vince, Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"But so absurd is the common appellation of Chinese Tatary, that not one tribe of
... Yet the title here given of Independent Tatary becomes unexceptionable, ..."
2. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1826)
"Kerns throughout the whole of Tatary to be a defi-l ciency of wood ; and the ...
The extent of Arabia is somewhat greater than that of Independent Tatary. ..."
3. Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia by Edmund Spencer (1855)
"... Tatars —How Russia obtained possession of Krim Tatary— Tatar Tribes—Their ...
the khans of Krim-Tatary, we continued our route along the borders of the ..."
4. Two Thousand Years of Missions Before Carey, Based Upon and Embodying Many by Lemuel Call Barnes (1900)
"CHINA AND Tatary, CONTINUED. 121. The divisions of the Tatar sovereignty. 122.
Missions in the Khanate of ..."
5. Geographical Delineations: Or, A Compendious View of the Natural and by John Aikin (1807)
"... CHINESE Tatary. UNDER this general name may be comprehended the whole remainder
of the Asiatic continent, bounded on the north by Asiatic Russia, ..."
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