Little Tartary

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Little Tartary is a historical designation for areas north of the Black Sea under the suzerainty of the Crimean Khanate and inhabited by nomadic Tatars of the Lesser Nogai Horde from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Little Tartary was designated such vis-à-vis (Great) Tartary, areas of central and northern Asia inhabited by Turkic and Mongol peoples. The Nogai Horde consisted of the Budjak, Yedisan, Canıbuyluk, Yedikul, Azov, and Kuban septs. After the annexation of the Khanate by the Russian Empire (1774-1792), the nomads were expelled and the region was settled by ethnic Slavs and Germans as New Russia. The area that was Little Tartary is currently part of Ukraine and Russia. However, there is also some facts that some nomad Slavic people inhabited this region long ago before arrival of ancestors of modern Tatars in the 13th century. This people are known in history of Kievan Rus' as brodniki (literally - vagabonds or nomads)

See also

• Tartary
• Crimean Khanate
• Tatars
• Budjak
• Yedisan
• Azov
• Kuban

References

External links

• 1747 map showing Little Tartary