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Tartars: see Tatars Tatars or Tartars , Turkic-speaking peoples living primarily in Russia. They number about 5.5 million and are largely Sunni Muslims. The name is derived from Tata or Dada, a Mongolian tribe that inhabited present NE Mongolia in the 5th cent.
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Tartars

13th-century rapacious hordes of Genghis Khan. [Medieval Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1064]

See : Savagery

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