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Name of "country" in central / east asia?

Totoro

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I've been racking my brain trying to figure this one out.. I got into a discussion with a friend of mine the other day and I suddenly realized I can't remember the name of the "country" that never existed in central or east asia.

It was actually a cultural group, who were known for horses and horsemen and they even had their own flag, as is somewhat common with cultural groups in Asia.

The group was more known about around the 1800's and I recall even Mr. Burns on the Simpsons once made a reference to them.

I actually bumped into a website that had a whole article on them and I can't find them. But the gist of it was people thought it was a country when it was just a cultural group.

I know, I'm shooting in the dark here, but the name has connotations of Gilbert and Sullivan, the ottoman empire and far off, exotic lands..

TIA.. !
 
Tartary

Knowledge of Manchuria, Siberia and Central Asia in Europe prior to the 18th century was limited. The entire area was known simply as "Tartary" and its inhabitants "Tartars".[1] In the Early modern period, as understanding of the geography increased, Europeans began to subdivide Tartary into sections with prefixes denoting the name of the ruling power or the geographical location. Thus, Siberia was Great Tartary or Russian Tartary, the Crimean Khanate was Little Tartary, Manchuria was Chinese Tartary, and western Central Asia (prior to becoming Russian Central Asia) was known as Independent Tartary.[2][3][4]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary
 
FireFly, you just slid in here and dropped that definition like you didn't even have to guess that's what I was trying to think of.


LoL

I have a cousin that when we were kids, we were along the same lines with the same kind of vibe. She liked horses and she mentioned that she thought that's where horses came from, or at least the good ones did. Why she'd use such an archaic term is / was beyond me, other than a past life connection. But I instantly knew what Tartary referred to. That was the last time I recalled ever hearing the word until the Simpson's episode. The joke being that Mr Burns is so old, he still thinks that's a relevant term...

I saw a website on it and then lost it and for some weird reason, I was trying to think of it in reference to a conversation with a friend.

Anyway, you scratched that itch! Thank you so much!
 
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