Hi, I've been looking over many maps from the 1400s-1800s and the region that we now know as Russia had on many maps the name of Tartaria, another very intriguing point was that some maps contained both Russia and Tartaria, Russia being on the west while tartaria on the east.

Are there any writings from that era that would support the idea that they were more than just nomadic tribes that were yet to be united? Looking over youtube of course I came across many "they are hiding our history" type of videos, But the evidence presented in those videos was nothing better than "trust me bro there is a conspiracy".

I read what Encyclopedia Britannica had to say about it and it kind of boiled down to the place is a name for the unmapped/ not well-understood region of the east. One other thing that caught my eye was the number of maps that contained Islands in the arctic region, that seemed to never have existed.

(some maps contain naked people, and may not be suitable for work environment)

Authors	Year published	reference / title
Santarem, Manuel Francisco Mauro, Fra	1450	This is a composite map that contains both Tartaria and Russia
Monte (Monti), Urbano	1587	Another Huge composite map That contains both, they also add some strange island formation in the arctic region 4 rivers
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van	1594	Russia and "Tart Mongul"
Magini, Giovanni Antonio Wytfliet, Corneille	1597	Contains both
Ptolemy, Claudius Ruscelli,Girolamo Rosaccio, Giuseppe	1599	Just a few years later by other authors, it doesn't even mention Tartaria
Coronelli, Vincenzo	1688	Russia as moscovia and tartaria still present
Robert de Vaugondy, Didier	1752	Contains Russia both, but tartaria is called "tatarie Chinoise"

There are 100s of these maps that I would like to share that are just really interesting to look through... also if there is anything interesting that caught your eye please do share.