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Hi Bill....what are your views on the Tatar Empire?
Thanks
If you're referring to this thread:
Stretching reality a little thin? Pervading the alt-webs now : Tartaria, 150 years later
... it's 100% nonsense.
I wrote here:
It's the historical 'everyone's-lying-to-us' equivalent of Flat Earthism.
I agree that that post is not factual....but I am not wishing to ask you about that
The Tatar Empire would seem to have existed (from my own research) since the fall of the Roman Empire!
Now some consider that the Roman Empire never ended....but from my 'look' at things, it did as the Khans came and subjugated them!
And the Khans have never left....well why would they as they had all the land and all the gold!
There are even descriptions within old books of the Tartary, which was the 'Homeland'....but they ruled the middle east, China, Europe and of course Russia.
Quote THE BONDAGE AND TRAVELS OF JOHANN SCHILTBERGER,
A NATIVE OF BAVARIA, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA,
1396–1427.
TRANSLATED FROM THE HEIDELBERG MS. EDITED IN 1859 BY PROFESSOR KARL RIEDRICH NEUMANN, BY Commander J. BUCHAN TELFER, R.N., F.S.A., F.R.G.S.
With Notes by PROFESSOR P. BRUUN, OF THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH RUSSIA, AT ODESSA;
AND A PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, AND NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR AND EDITOR.
Ne respice ad eum qui dixit, sed respice ad id quod dixit.—Scaliger, Proverb. Arab.
WITH A MAP.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52569...-h/52569-h.htm
Quote In alluding to the sledge-dogs of Great Tatary and Siberia, Rubruquis, Marco Polo, and Ibn Batouta, dwell upon their large size. It is not a little remarkable that Marco Polo, who never saw those animals, should have heard that they were as big as donkeys; the very simile employed by Schiltberger. They now are certainly much inferior in size.
A link below to a map....which shows Tartaria just right of the White Sea (Caspian)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52569...images/map.jpg
Its a large map so I haven't put it on this page.
And I do not believe that which I heard within that thread but it did make me reseach the Khans.
Like it or not....Tatars were and possibly still are....real.