From the beginning, the extra r was present in the Western forms, and according to the Oxford English Dictionary this was most likely due to an association with Tartarus ( Hell in Greek mythology ), though some claim that the name Tartar was in fact used amongst the Tatars themselves.

* in Russia, before the imperial unification from Muscovy ; sometimes even as vassal, tributary to a Tartar Khan ; later, in Peter the Great's autocratic empire, the russification gertsog was used as the Russian rendering of the German ducal title Herzog, especially as ( the last ) part of the full official style of the Russian Emperor: Gertsog Shlesvig-Golstinskiy, Stormarnskiy, Ditmarsenskiy i Oldenburgskiy i prochaya, i prochaya, i prochaya " Duke of Schleswig-Holstein above, Stormarn, Dithmarschen and Oldenburg, and of other lands ", in chief of German and Danish territories to which the Tsar was dynastically linked.

The Tartar Strait was a puzzle to European explorers since, when approached from the south, it becomes increasingly shallow and looks like the head of a bay.

In certain Muslim states, Sultan was also an aristocratic title, as in the Tartar Astrakhan Khanate.

The Vinland Map first came to light in 1957 ( three years before the discovery of the Norse site at L ' Anse aux Meadows in 1960 ), bound in a slim volume with a short medieval text called the Hystoria Tartarorum ( usually called in English the Tartar Relation ), and was unsuccessfully offered to the British Museum by London book dealer Irving Davis on behalf of a Spanish-Italian dealer named Enzo Ferrajoli de Ry.

The expanded 30th anniversary edition of the 1965 official book, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, was notable for its exclusion of most of the evidence against the map's authenticity, concentrating instead on vindications by George Painter, and Thomas Cahill with colleague Bruce Kusko ( in which they claimed specifically that they had not analyzed the loose particles they took from the map at the time of their PIXE research ), but it did reprint a remarkable essay written in 1989 by the original book dealer Laurence Witten.

The Byerly Turk was sire of Jigg, who in turn was sire of Partner, sire of Tartar who was the sire of the very good racehorse and influential sire, Herod ( 1738 ).

The name was invented at the suggestion of Captain L. J. Stecher, a former Tartar Weapon System manager, after an internal U. S. Navy contest to name the ASMS program was initiated.

In Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Herbert Pocket describes Estella Havisham as a Tartar because she was " hard and haughty and capricious to the last degree, and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex.

The church was later plundered in Tartar raids but two Galați suburbs, " Mazeppa 1 and 2 " are named for this man.

The now razed Tartar Field was home to WABX's free Sunday concerts in the late 1960s and early 1970s featuring many of these musicians.

The Academy's conductor, Adam Itzel, Jr. was a very popular composer, known for the national hit light opera The Tar and the Tartar.

The next film, Ursus e la regazza tartara ( Ursus and the Tartar Girl, released in English-speaking countries as Ursus and the Tartar Princess ), was filmed in France in 1962, and starred British actor Joe Robinson as Ursus, but takes place in Central Asia ; Ursus fights a Khan played by famous Armenian actor Akim Tamiroff.

This film was also released to American television under the title " The Tartar Invasion ".

Erskine went to sea as a midshipman in the Tartar, under captain Sir David Lindsay, who was a nephew of Lord Mansfield and a friend of the Erskine family.

The Tartar set sail for the Caribbean, where Erskine was to spend the next four years, rising to the rank of acting lieutenant.

He was invited to a public dinner in Edinburgh in February 1821, and made his first trip to Scotland since he had left it on the Tartar over fifty years before.

Initially light cavalry companies formed by Polish Tatars ( the very word ulan came from Lithuanian Tartar surname that might have come from an honorific name for a young, skilled warrior known as oglan ) for one of the magantes, Sapieha, the uhlans joined the forces of Augustus der Starke, the king of Poland-Lithuania-Saxony, and in early 1740s 18th century the first uhlan ' pulks ' ( regiments )-known as uhlans-were formed for his son, king Augustus III.

In the group there were 12 Chechen men, two Chechen women, nine Ingush, three Russians, two Arabs, two Ossetians, one Tartar, one Kabardinian and one Guran.

All but one ( USS Long Beach ( CGN-9 )) were converted WWII gun cruisers ( CL / CLG or CA / CAG ), carrying either Talos or Terrier, and in some cases also Tartar missiles.

HMS Tartar has been the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy, and may refer to:

The shaved head, of which the above statement reminds one, and the long tail of modern times in China, are all anti-Chinese, unknown to their forefathers, and imposed on them by their Tartar conquerors on pain of death ; which alternative was preferred by many of the old sons of Han, the dynasty in which the Chinese glory, and from which they take their national name.

On the way back Tartar captured two Danish transports that it had passed while chasing the gunboats ; one of them had 22 soldiers on board, with a considerable quantity of ammunition, shells and the like, while the other contained provisions.

The Mark 13 is equipped to fire the RIM-66 Standard, RGM-84 Harpoon, and RIM-24 Tartar missiles for anti-air and anti-ship defense, and is capable of firing the Standard at a rate of one every eight seconds.

His ship ( HMS Tartar ) was one of those that pursued the battleship Bismarck following the Battle of the Denmark Strait although he did not witness her sinking because Tartar went to refuel some hours before the end.

* Tartar, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive

The MK 16 Launching Group also had configurations that supported HARPOON RGM-84 ( Onboard Knox Class Destroyer Escorts ( Frigates )) or a variation of the Tartar missile in limited distribution.

They were long redoutable both as warriors and as armourers, but by the end of the fourteenth century they seem to have come thoroughly under the Tartar rule ; for they fought on the side of Toctamish Khan of Sarai against the great Timur.

After years of study, the proofs of the book, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, were ready by the end of 1964, and Mellon donated the map to Yale.

US Navy interest in anti-ballistic missiles operations dates back to 1965 when the RIM-2 Terrier and RIM-24 Tartar anti-aircraft missiles were test fired against Corporal and Redstone missiles.

In addition, the Polish forces were helped by Lithuanian light cavalry of Eastern origins and by Tartar skirmishers, who used mostly hit-and-run tactics.

* There was no such thing as the Tartar and Mongol invasion followed by over two centuries of yoke and slavery, because the so-called " Tartars and Mongols " were the actual ancestors of the modern Russians, living in a bilingual state with Turkic spoken as freely as Russian.

They were provided with a Cossack escort as they traveled between Tarki and Derbent, but when a Tartar dignitary claimed that this would only provoke danger, the escort was bypassed for the security of the Tartar chiefs.

Once the Golden Horde Tatar ( sometimes also spelled " Tartar ") families had settled in Lithuania in the late 14th century, they were required to perform military service for the Great Prince of Lithuania and Polish King, and the Poles started incorporating much of their military vocabulary and many of their traditions along with their strategy and tactics.

Indeed, if it were not in so dignified a locality, it would be generally classed with the mermaid, the flying serpent, and the Tartar lamb, as an admirable example of clever workmanship.

Wallachia, the Tartar Khanate of Crimea, and eventually Moldavia were merely converted into vassal states thanks to strong military resistance to Mehmed's attempts at conquest.

DDs were fast ASW ships ; DDGs were AAW ships carrying the short-range Tartar missile.

DEs were ASW vessels ; DEGs were AAW vessels with the Tartar.

DEs were ASW vessels ; DEGs were AAW vessels with the short-range Tartar guided missile.

In 1717 most of the citizens of the town were killed by an invading Tartar horde.

Tartars captain and another seaman were killed and twelve men were wounded before Tartar was able to make her escape.

Wars with Tartars and Mongols were a major aspect of Medieval Russian history, but the Russians gained the upper hand long before the 19th Century, and no Tartar Khan at the time of writing was in a position to act as Feofar is described as doing ; depicting late 19th Century Tartars as able to face Russians on anything resembling equal terms is a manifest anachronism.

The Rutenians retook the area early in the 13th century but were expelled by a Tartar invasion in 1241 and the town was pillaged.

Even after the upgrade to a new missile, ships were still said to be Tartar ships because they carried the Tartar Guided Missile Fire Control System.