So what was their role in history? A remnant of the mongols? A bizzarre experiment of LARPing at the same time the Ottomans and Gengis Khan? Or just a glorified ottoman outpost for slaves raids?
>>18513723The Ottoman one
Pan-Turanism soon?
>>18513723They weren't LARPing, because they were genuinely Mongoloid. pic related is what the average "tatar" from that region looked like. However, when the Russian Empire annexed all of Crimea, that included the southern part controlled by the Ottomans as seen on your map, and that region wasn't inhabited by tatars, but by Ottoman Muslims of various origins, and the Russian census takers simply labeled them "tatar" out of convienience.
>>18513792These people, these "south coast tatars" identified, like all settled Muslims, simply as that, "Muslim", and so they did not object when the foreigners came and labeled them "tatars". Subsequently European travellors were puzzled as to why the "Crimean Tatars" were Caucasoid rather than Mongoloid, because most only ever visited the south coast of Crimea, which was the only part of Crimea worth seeing for it's natural beauty. However, any serious anthropologist knew better, and understood that the coastal tatars and the genuine Crimean Tatars north of the mountains were different in origin, not only in race but language, as they spoke Ottoman Turkish rather then a tatar dialect, and as well in religion, for Christian elements were retained amongst them.
>>18513723Slave raiders who terrorized the region and whose constant pressure with annual raids pretty much created the Cossacks and militarized village where every man, woman, and child had to know how to use a sword or a gun. Hundreds of thousands were enslaved.
>>18513723They weren't LARPing, because they were genuinely Mongoloid. pic related is what the average "tatar" from that region looked like.However, when the Russian Empire annexed all of Crimea, that included the southern part controlled by the Ottomans as seen on your map, and that region wasn't inhabited by tatars, but by Ottoman Muslims of various origins, and the Russian census takers simply labeled them "tatar" out of convienience.
>>18514325These people, these "south coast tatars" identified, like all settled Muslims, simply as that, "Muslim", and so they did not object when the foreigners came and labeled them "tatars". Subsequently European travellors were puzzled as to why the "Crimean Tatars" were Caucasoid rather than Mongoloid, because most only ever visited the south coast of Crimea, which was the only part of Crimea worth seeing for it's natural beauty.However, any serious anthropologist knew better, and understood that the coastal tatars and the genuine Crimean Tatars north of the mountains were different in origin, not only in race but language, as they spoke Ottoman Turkish rather then a tatar dialect, and as well in religion, for Christian elements were retained amongst them.
