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10 unusual facts about Tatars


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.

Claude de Visdelou

He collected from Chinese historians unique documents on the peoples of Central Asia and Eastern Asia: Huns, Tatars, Mongols, and Turks.

Dimitrija Demeter

One of his most known works includes early romanic poem Grobnik field (near Rijeka) written in 1842 for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grobnik field where according to legend Croats defeated the invading Tatars.

Le Fils de Gascogne

Harvey, a timid provincial young mans, accommodate a troop of Georgian choristers accompanied by Dinara, their interpreter (a quarter Russian: “my father is Tatar, my mother is half Russian, half Jewish”), and acts as their guide in Paris.

Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan

In his eternal wandering Maciste finds himself in 13th Century China rescuing a Chinese prince and princess from the Tartars and leading the Chinese into a revolt against them.

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.

Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli

There he published his research work Lithuanian Tatars dedicated to the history and culture of Lipka Tatars.

Zaporizhian Sich

The Sich population had an international component, and apart from Ukrainians included Moldavians, Tatars, Poles, Lithuanians, Jews, Russians and many other ethnicities.

Some researchers say that the constant threat from the Crimean Tatars was the impetus for the emergence of cossackdom.

The Zaporizhian Sich emerged as a natural method of defense by the Ukrainian people against the frequent and devastating raids of Crimean Tatars, who captured hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, Belorussians and Poles.


Aleksander Józef Lisowski

In 1608 together with Aleksander Kleczkowski, leading his forces - a band of few hundred rag tag soldiers of fortune: Don Cossacks, Ruthenians, Tatars, Germans, Swedes, Poles, Lithuanians and who knows what others, he defeated army of tsar Vasili Shuisky led by Zakhary Lyapunov and Ivan Khovansky near Zaraysk and captures Mikhailov and Kolomna and moves on to the blockade of Moscow.

Ar begs

Ar begs (in Russian chronicles "Арские князья") was a formation of Noqrat Tatars' nobility, served to Muscovy in 16th-17th century.

Battle of Kletsk

Meanwhile, the Tatars established their main camp near Kletsk and sent half of their force in smaller groups to pillage surrounding areas.

Battle of Kulikovo

A minor planet, 2869 Nepryadva, discovered in 1980 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, was named in honor of the Russian victory over the Tataro-Mongols.

Battle of the Vorskla River

Inspired by their successes, Vytautas declared a "Crusade against the Tatars" and in May 1399 received blessing from Pope Boniface IX.

Bible translations into the languages of Russia

Nikolay Ilminsky, a Russian Orthodox priest and missionary, was the first who greatly promoted translations of the Bible into the minority languages of the Russian Empire including the Tatar dialect of the Christianized Tatars, called the Kryashens.

Bogdan III the One-Eyed

In the same year, Moldavia suffered two major Tatar devastations (they are alleged to have carried away 74,000 as slaves) — in 1511, the Tatars even managed to occupy most of the country.

Brodnici

A November 11, 1250 letter of king Béla IV of Hungary to Pope Innocent IV says that Tatars imposed tribute onto the countries neighboring with his kingdom: "que ex parte Orientis cum regno nostro conterminantur, sicut Ruscia, Cumania, Brodnici, Bulgaria".

Chuq

Çük, a holiday that was celebrated by Tatars, Chuvash, and Udmurt peoples

Crimean Goths

In "The Crimean Tatars: the diaspora experience and the forging of a nation" By Brian Glyn Williams they quote Vozgrin as saying; 'In all probability their descendents are the Tatars of a series of villages in the Crimea, who are sharply delineated from the inhabitants of neighboring villages by their tall height and other features characteristic of Scandinavians.

Crimean Tatar cuisine

In the early 1990s, after nearly five decades in exile, approximately 250,000 Crimean Tatars decided to return to Crimea, officially a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic since 1954.

Crimean Tatars in Bulgaria

The Tatars were assigned special messenger and military missions, and were incorporated into the Ottoman military administration.

Dzhigit

Dzhigitovka of Kurds and Tatars in front of the Fortress of Sardarapat in Armenia.

Feodor Koshka

His cautionary approach towards the Tatars was praised by Edigu in his 1407 letter to Vasili I.

First Council of Lyon

At the opening, June 28, after the singing of the Veni Creator, Spiritu, Innocent IV preached on the subject of the five wounds of the Church and compared them to his own five sorrows: (1) the poor behaviour of both clergy and laity; (2) the insolence of the Saracens who occupied the Holy Land; (3) the Great East-West Schism; (4) the cruelties of the Tatars in Hungary; and (5) the persecution of the Church by the Emperor Frederick.

Konstanty Ostrogski

As one of the main military leaders (alongside Grand Hetmans of the Crown Mikołaj Firlej and Mikołaj Kamieniecki) of the alliance he continued to wage war against Muscovy and in 1512 achieved a great victory against the Tatars in the Battle of Wiśniowiec.

Lisowczycy

In 1608, together with Aleksander Kleczkowski, leading his forces - a band of few hundred ragtag soldiers of fortune, mainly Lithuanians, Poles, Don Cossacks, Ruthenians, Tatars, Germans, Swedes - he defeated the armies of tsar Vasili Shuisky, led by Zakhary Lyapunov and Ivan Khovansky, near Zaraysk and captured Mikhailov and Kolomna, moving on to blockade Moscow.

Louis I of Hungary

After the serials of victories over the Tatars, the Hungarian sphere of influence stretched eastward as far as the Dniester.

Mihail Kogălniceanu, Constanța

In 1651, the place was mentioned by the Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi as a Tatar settlement named Kara Murat ("Black Murat", after its founder).

Perm Krai

In this territory for long time was active contacts between Tatars and Bashkins, so in some cases it’s difficult to delineate this ethnic groups, especially in such areas as Kuyedinsky District and Tulva River basin.

Pidkamin

They were martyred by Tatars in 1245, however the monastery was reestablished in 1464 by the Latin Archbishop of Lviv Gregory of Sanok.

Russo-Kazan Wars

In 1536, the Russians and Tatars were on the brink of a new war and met near Lyskovo, but the battle was averted.

Starye Chechkaby

Mordvinians (Agish side) and Chuvashеs also lived in the village, but later gradually moved out or became Tatars under the influence of Islam.

Tatar languages

Tatar language of Volga or Kazan Tatars in central part of the European section of Russia

Turkic migration

# land of sedentary Turkic-speaking townspeople that have been subjects of the Central Asian Chagatayids, i.e. Sarts, Central Asian Mughals, Central Asian Timurids, Uyghurs of Chinese Turkestan and the later invading Tatars that came to be known as Uzbeks; This area roughly coincides with "Khorasan" in the widest sense, plus Tarim Basin which was known as Chinese Turkestan.

Virgin Kębelska

In the village of Kębło, Tatars founded a camp to gather stolen goods and hold people captive.

Vorotynsky

Aiming at advantage against his young rival Prince Belsky, Ivan did nothing to help him when the Tatars routed Belsky's army four years later.

Yuri Nemyrych

He returned to his estates in 1649 but the massacre of Polish army by the Cossacks and Crimean Tatars at Batoh (Battle of Batih) in 1652 forced him to evacuate again, this time to his estates in Volhynia.