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3 unusual facts about Tartar


Bala Kəngərli

Bala Kəngərli, Tartar, village and municipality in the Tartar Rayon of Azerbaijan

Bayat Castle

The first capital of the khanate was the Bayat Castle built in 1748 in Kebirli mahali (province).

Leon Tuhan-Baranowski

Born in Sankt Petersburg into a Roman Catholic family with noble roots (Tartar and Belarusian descent).


Al-Nasir

His long reign of forty-seven years is chiefly marked by ambitious and corrupt dealings with the Tartar chiefs, and by his hazardous invocation of the Mongols, which so soon brought his own dynasty to an end.

Bagrat Ulubabyan

He, however, shifted his focus and began writing short stories as well as epics: "Aygestan" (1960), "Tartar" (1963), "The Grain Never Dies" (1967), and "Lamp" (1976).

Beeswing

Potassium bitartrate, a sediment from winemaking, used in cooking as "cream of tartar"

Europa Editions

Europa published its 100th book in 2011, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky (translated by Tim Mohr).

Isaac Hinckley

Hinckley was born on Oct. 28, 1815, in Hingham, Massachusetts, a son of Isaac Hinckley (1793-1818), who had gone to sea at a young age and rose to command three ships: the brig Reaper (1809-10), which he sailed on a trading voyage from Boston to Aden and Calcutta; the ship Tartar (1812-13), on another voyage to Calcutta; and finally the ship Canton (1815-18) for three voyages from Boston to Canton, China.

Luigi Premazzi

In Tiflis (Tbilisi, he painted a watercolor of the Via dei Calzolari Asiatici; Houses and Tartar Bazaar : Angolo di Case sul gran mercato; Angolo di case al ponte Aolabar, Via Sienskaja, The Magnificent Aolobar Bridge over the Kur River, The Right Bank of the Kur River, and the Piazza del gran Mercato Maydan.

Old Jock

Jock's main rival in the show ring was a dog named Tartar, who was said to be more fond of ratting than his competitor.

Tartar river

The river flows eastward through the whole Kalbajar rayon (de facto Martakert Province) passing through Kalbajar city, Tartar and Barda raions passing

Turan-Mirza Kamal

Kamal was also a composer and would often perform his suite Khroma, which detailed musically the struggle of the Tartar people under the Cossacks.

Vtoryye

Dzhamilli Vtoryye (also, Dzhamilli), a village in the Tartar Rayon of Azerbaijan


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