Remember that when the khokhols cry.
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I still don't understand why it is so important for you to believe that Russian civilisation can't be independent from all that Western crap that means nothing for us. Believe it, if you wish, but don't try to sell that crap to others. You will look insane.
That maps are just bullshit. There was no any Tartaria or whatever.
You will not find any toponymic mentioning "tartar" or "Tartaria" at all in that places. Sanskrit toponyms exist. Russian toponyms exist. Tatar toponyms exist. You will find even Ugro-finnish toponyms here. But not a single thing named after "large and mighty Tartaria".
This means only one thing - cartgraphers never was in that places in person.
Τάρταρος (tartaros) is ancient Greek name of worst place in Hell. It is just a scary word. That simple.
Russian lands was terra incognita for western cartographers. They just acquire few local maps from Russian merchants in Europe, or draw something from their words, combine it somehow and just think out all other things to sell the map to customer, perfectly knowing that customer will never reach that distant lands. Maps with "Here live dragons" or "Grand Tartaria" (Big Scary Hell) writing on it sell themselves much better.
Moscow started as a monastery. The same Greek monks converting St.Olga went to convert the Northern Slav tribes she united, and the Vikings who were the people there then in the Baltics, North Western Russia.
The tribes of horselords, the tartary, were there since the dawn of man and are still there today, they united at historic points where it took great leaders rallying them, Alexander the Great, or Atilla, or Genghis. Otherwise they were nomadic clans of warlords. They didn't stay in one place around civilization expanding into bullshit narratives, they migrated across the plains and steppes along historic migratory trade routes spanning the planet.
No, you. You're stuck in a mindset that doesn't want to puzzle over it connecting the obvious dots.
You're so belligerent it's laughable. The Black Sea for example didn't populate like the Med, because the Greeks were idiots? At what point? How far East did they go? Alexander the Great is in Kazakhstan definitely Kyrgyzstan.