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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, inhabited mostly by Turkic peoples after the Mongol-Turkic invasion. It incorporated the current areas of Pontic-Caspian steppe, Volga-Urals, Caucasus, Siberia, Turkestan, Mongolia, and Manchuria. ==Geography and history== Tartary was often divided into sections with prefixes denoting the name of the ruling power or the geographical location. Thus, western Siberia was ''Muscovite'' or ''Russian Tartary'', Xinjiang and Mongolia were ''Chinese'' or ''Cathay Tartary'', western Turkestan (later Russian Turkestan) was known as ''Independent Tartary'', and Manchuria was ''East Tartary''. As the Russian Empire expanded eastward and more of Tartary became known to Europeans, the term fell into disuse. European areas north of the Black Sea inhabited by Turkic peoples were known as Little Tartary. The "Komul Desert of the Tartary" was mentioned by Immanuel Kant in his ''"Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime",'' as a "great far-reaching solitude". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tartary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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