Today I would like to touch upon the topic of Tartary. There are many different researches on the Internet in this regard, from interesting to frankly delusional. The Mercator map does not allow us to get around this topic. As I already wrote in the article about Hyperborea, Gerard used some ancient source to compile the world atlas, but “spoiled it” with the data he knew. Therefore, on earlier maps, we see a pronounced similarity with shelf zones in unexplored areas and duplication of data (what was known was drawn and what was not known was moved aside), and in later maps these areas were corrected in accordance with the current state of affairs. Thanks to the duplication of data, we were lucky to see the old world (possibly antediluvian).
Map of Asia by Gerard Mercator.
On the map there is a marking of areas by color, I will assume that this is how the author divided known areas and unknown areas. And just Tartary, apparently, belongs to the unknown region, located somewhere beyond the Ob River. Comparing anything in northern latitudes on flat maps is not very productive, the projection is very distorted, therefore I propose to look from a different angle - from the North Pole.
On the map we are interested in ASIAE PARS.
There is a city of Tartarus on the map, let's try to localize it. He is on the Tabin Peninsula. Above live bargs - one of the peoples of Hyperborea. Beyond the Tabin Peninsula is the Anian Strait (within the Lena River basin). Technically, everything is simple, but something is wrong …
The barges lived in Svalbard and northern Grendandia.
Not so with the Ob River. It should go beyond the peninsula. At the time of Mercator, the Ob river is known, this is the sphere of influence of Russia, the coastline too. It is impossible not to map known lands, but what to do with all the rest of the information from the ancient source? Push back into the unknown of course!
If we remove the doubles, then Ny-Alesund is the land of the bargs, Tiksi is the Anian Strait.
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But we have what Gerard did not have - a depth map. And we can match them with an ancient source. And from the depth map, we see that from a specific angle of the Tabin Peninsula we have Svalbard. This is the land of the bargs - the people inhabiting Hyperborea and Tabin. Tartars and Mughals lived southwest - somewhere between Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya, today it is the Barents Sea.
The Barents Sea is the very lost Tartary.
The glaciers of the Novaya Zemlya mountains apparently fed the river on which these settlements stood. But obscurity remains with the Ob. Perhaps the Ob connected with the Yenisei and flowed into the Arctic Ocean in the Kara Sea region, there are traces of the river on the depth map, but there is nothing similar on the Mercator map, it has a river either west of Novaya Zemlya or already in the Anian Strait. Assuming that the tsunami that covered the mammoths could have changed the rivers, we can, then everything is consistent with the Mercator map. But there is flushing from the channel and this must be taken into account.
Washing out from the old channel of a large river east of Novaya Zemlya, which is not on the Mercator map.
Well, about Tartary. Since Tabin went under water more than ten thousand years ago, then the settlements (I do not use the words cities) Tartarus and Mogul and others should be attributed to the same time. It is difficult to do this in view of modern chronology. We just changed our view of antiquity because of Göbekli Tepe, and it is very difficult to admit the existence of many such settlements, and even the rest of the information about them (and who kept and transmitted it?). With the appearance of these cards, the Europeans learned that tartars live behind Russia (Muscovy). But the trouble is, as they did not go to the east, they were not found, and the term was preserved and assigned to other peoples, adding additional confusion to the history of Asia.