The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Tartary

Asia


View Larger MapDescription of institution: Tartary or Great Tartary was a name used in 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 after the Mongol-Turkic invasion inhabited mostly by Turkic peoples. URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary Location contains: Cassa [unidentified] (Settlement)
Sakia [unidentified] (Settlement)