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The Strait of Tartary connects the Sea of Okhotsk to the Sea of Japan. Strait of Tartary or Gulf of Tartary ( Russian: Татарский пролив; Chinese: 韃靼海峽; pinyin: Dádá hǎixiá; Japanese: 間宮海峡, romanized : Mamiya kaikyō, lit. 'Mamiya Strait'; Korean: 타타르 해협) is a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the ...
Tartary. Map of independent Tartary (in yellow) and Chinese Tartary (in violet), in 1806. Tartary ( Latin: Tartaria; French: Tartarie; German: Tartarei; Russian: Тартария, romanized : Tartariya) or Tatary (Russian: Татария, romanized: Tatariya) was a blanket term used in Western European literature and cartography for a vast part ...
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This is a list of heritage NATO country codes. Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. Additional codes cover gaps in the ISO coverage, deal ...
The Crimean Khanate, [b] self-defined as the Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak, [5] [c] and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary, [d] was a Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441–1783, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde.
Volga Tatars. Möxämmät-Ämin, three-time ruler of Kazan Khanate, mentioned in the Tsar Book during 16th century. The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars ( Tatar: татарлар, romanized: tatarlar; Russian: татары, romanized : tatary) are a Kipchak-Bulgar Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of western Russia.
Siege of Perekop (1920) / 46.150°N 33.683°E / 46.150; 33.683. The siege of Perekop, also known as the Perekop-Chongar Operation, was a battle of the Southern Front in the Russian Civil War from 7 to 17 November 1920. The White movement 's stronghold on the Crimean Peninsula was protected by the Chongar fortification system along the ...
Tatars. The Tatars [b] ( / ˈtɑːtərz / TAH-tərz ), [35] formerly also spelt Tartars, [b] is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia. [36] Initially, the ethnonym Tatar possibly referred to the Tatar confederation. That confederation was eventually incorporated into the ...