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Who counted as a Tartar?
The same word named different peoples in different centuries. Each dot is one of 78 written sources, in the row of the people it meant.
One written sourceBefore 1200 is squeezed to fit. Click a dot to open it.
Golden Horde and its Tatar successor khanates 35
- 1306–1321a range
- 1517exact year
- 1525exact year
- 1550exact year
- c. 1550approximate
- 1564–1565a range
- 1578exact year
- c. 1579approximate
- 1582–1586a range
- 1619exact year
- 1627exact year
- 1633–1666within a century
- 1636exact year
- 1670–1689within a decade
- 1675–1677a range
- 1676exact year
- 1692exact year
- c. 1697–1703approximate
- 1711exact year
- 1720exact year
- 1732–1764a range
- 1740swithin a decade
- 1765exact year
- 1768exact year
- 1770–1784a range
- 1771exact year
- 1771–1776a range
- 1771–1780a range
- 1775exact year
- 1776–1780a range
- 1785exact year
- 1785–1786a range
- 1787exact year
- 1787–1791a range
- 1830exact year
Mongols and the Mongol empire 17
- c. 720–735approximate
- 1221exact year
- 1237exact year
- 1241exact year
- c. 1243–1244approximate
- c. 1245–1268approximate
- 1245–1399within a century
- 1245–1399within a century
- 1266–1299within a century
- c. 1300approximate
- 1305exact year
- 1306–1321a range
- 1307exact year
- 1321exact year
- c. 1329–1330approximate
- 1569exact year
- 1638–1640a range
Jurchen and Manchus (incl. the Qing as a Manchu dynasty) 7
- 1638–1640a range
- 1659exact year
- 1663–1672a range
- 1667exact year
- 1670exact year
- 1692exact year
- 1699–1700a range
Turkic and Central Asian peoples and states 3
- 1776–1780a range
- 1823exact year
- 1849exact year
Western Mongols (Oirat, Dzungar, Kalmyk) 1
- 1728–1733a range
A regional label rather than a people 1
- 1699–1700a range
Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the North Pacific 1
- 1776–1780a range
Not specified 19
- 1072–1077a range
- 1228–1252debated
- c. 1240–1259approximate
- c. 1244–1253approximate
- 1247exact year
- c. 1300–1310approximate
- c. 1330–1352approximate
- 1559exact year
- c. 1569–1578approximate
- 1585exact year
- 1612exact year
- 1654–1657a range
- 1726exact year
- 1739exact year
- 1755–1762a range
- 1768exact year
- 1793exact year
- 1794exact year
- 1837–1842a range