Discover Tartaria: The Real History of a Name That Once Covered Half the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798192049945)

For nearly six centuries, the word Tartaria appeared on European maps across an enormous expanse of Asia - sometimes stretching from the Black Sea to the Pacific.

What was Tartaria?
Who were the people Europeans called Tartars?
Why did the name appear on maps for centuries and then almost completely disappear?

Discover Tartaria follows the documentary trail through historical maps, chronicles, treaties, cartographic works, and period sources to reconstruct the story behind one of the most misunderstood names in world history.

From Guillaume Delisle, Abraham Ortelius, and Joan Blaeu to the khanates of Crimea, Kazan, Astrakhan, Sibir, and the Dzungars, this book separates the historical record from the modern mythology surrounding Tartaria.

It also investigates the images that continue to fuel the fascination: monumental nineteenth-century architecture, buried-looking windows, star-shaped forts, world's fairs, forgotten craftsmen, and the extraordinary buildings that seem to belong to another age.

But the book goes further.

It examines how the modern Tartarian myth emerged, why theories of a lost technologically advanced civilization became popular, and what happens when genuine historical mysteries are mixed with speculation.

The conclusion is neither a defense of conventional history nor an endorsement of conspiracy.

It is an invitation to do something more difficult:

LOOK AT THE MAP.
CHECK THE SOURCE.
READ THE DOCUMENT.
THEN DECIDE FOR YOURSELF.

Because the real history of Tartaria does not need a lost empire, a global reset, or a hidden civilization to be extraordinary.