Tartary covered much of northern Asia on European maps for about three hundred years. Today's Tartaria stories call it a lost empire. Ortelius printed the name in 1570, and by Colton's Central Asia of 1885 the large lettering read Russian lands, Turkestan, Afghanistan, Chinese Empire.
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Tartary was the name Western maps and encyclopedias gave northern and central Asia from the 13th century to the 19th. Writers from Nikolay Levashov in Russia to the forum author KorbenDallas in 2018 have read it as a vast lost country, pointing to the 1771 Britannica, printed flags and a capital at Tobolsk. This investigation reads those records on the page and ends on the one flag nobody has traced.
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National Cultural Development Under Communism, a paper of June 1957 released by the CIA in 1998-99, is the document behind the claim that the agency acknowledged Tartaria and that an order went out to erase it. Since KorbenDallas set it beside the old maps in 2018, writers such as Sage O'Quay have read it as an admission. This investigation reads the page, follows its footnote to a Central Committee resolution of 1944, and ends on the sentence about destroyed histories.
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