Re: Re : Enigmatic Tatars
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Originally Posted by Meneldil
Well we're at it, could anyone explain me if Tatars were Mongols, or if they were two different people. I've read many sources mentioning "tatars & mongols", and apparently, tatars are nowaday an ethnical group on their own.
Furthermore, I read in a lot of book that Kara Khitai (for exemple), were tatars, just as the tribe that attacked Genghis' tribe when he was young, and were different from real mongols.
OTOH, Marco Polo calls all Mongols 'tatars', and I've seen some people claiming that both are in fact the same people.
Sorry for bothering you with this not really related topic, but I thought it wasn't worth creating another thread about the Tatars. :bow:
I don't know who the tatars really were, but I know it wasn't uncommon a while ago to confuse tatars and mongols. Even as late as in the 19th century, for instance Edward Gibbon called the mongols Tatars. There's also some quote in M:TW "the hordes of the tatars are numberless" etc. (a very cool quote btw), that calls mongols tatars. And Marco Polo also did it.