Definition of Tatary

1. Noun. The vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries. "Under Genghis Khan Tartary extended as far east as the Pacific Ocean"

Exact synonyms: Tartary
Generic synonyms: Geographic Area, Geographic Region, Geographical Area, Geographical Region
Group relationships: Asia, Europe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tatary

Tasmanians
Taswegian
Taswegians
Tat
Tat protein
Tata
Tatabánya
Tatahumara
Tatar
Tatarian
Tatarians
Tatars
Tatarstan
Tatary (current term)
Tataupa tinamou
Tataupa tinamous
Tate
Tater Tots
Tati
Tatiana
Tatler
Tatra
Tattersall
Tattersalls
Tatum
Tatzelwurm
Tatzelwurms
Tau protein

Literary usage of Tatary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and by John Pinkerton, Samuel Vince, Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"But so absurd is the common appellation of Chinese Tatary, that not one tribe of ... Yet the title here given of Independent Tatary becomes unexceptionable, ..."

2. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1826)
"Kerns throughout the whole of Tatary to be a defi-l ciency of wood ; and the ... The extent of Arabia is somewhat greater than that of Independent Tatary. ..."

3. Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia by Edmund Spencer (1855)
"... Tatars —How Russia obtained possession of Krim Tatary— Tatar Tribes—Their ... the khans of Krim-Tatary, we continued our route along the borders of the ..."

4. Two Thousand Years of Missions Before Carey, Based Upon and Embodying Many by Lemuel Call Barnes (1900)
"CHINA AND Tatary, CONTINUED. 121. The divisions of the Tatar sovereignty. 122. Missions in the Khanate of ..."

5. Geographical Delineations: Or, A Compendious View of the Natural and by John Aikin (1807)
"... CHINESE Tatary. UNDER this general name may be comprehended the whole remainder of the Asiatic continent, bounded on the north by Asiatic Russia, ..."

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