Tartar

Japanese: Tartar
Tartar

...It is said that there were many Tatars in this army. The Mongol army also caused such fear in Europe at that time that Europeans began to call Mongolia Tartar, combining Tatar with the Greek word tartaros (meaning hell). In China, the custom of calling Mongolia Tartary continued, but the original Tatars lost their power thereafter, and in the Ming Dynasty, their name was only seen as a small group that made up the Chahar and Tumet tribes of Inner Mongolia.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Tartar" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この軍にはタタール族が多くいたという。またこのモンゴル軍は当時のヨーロッパに大きな恐怖を与えたため,ヨーロッパ人はタタールとギリシア語のタルタロスtartaros(〈地獄〉の意)とをかけて,モンゴルをタルタルTartarと呼ぶようになった。中国においてもモンゴルのことを韃靼と呼ぶ習慣が続いたが,本来のタタール族は以後力を失い,明代においては内モンゴルのチャハル部やトゥメット部を構成する小集団としてその名が見えるにすぎない。…

※「Tartar」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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