Thanks for the reply guys, I'll answer each of you a bit later.So, most people I discussed this theory with point to the following - there are no traces of Tartaria left.There might be some.First, let's remember Tartaria's flag (replying to Disraeli - did "Indian country" have a capital and a flag?). Like you can see in my first post, Tartaria's flag is a dragon on a golden banner. Now let's look at Moscow's coat of arms That's right, that is Saint George (or so they say) defeating that very dragon. Opponents often say this dragon is also present on Kazan's coat of arms, so this commemorates Russia's victory over tatars in 1552). However we can se this Tartarian flag in different books even in the 19th century, and Tartaria is mentioned as a separate country. I think two centuries is more than enough to realize Kazan is now a part of Russia.Now let's look at Russia's second most famous fortress. Petropavlovskaya fortress is shaped like a star, you'll find many of these in Europe, especially Holland.There is an expression in Russian "provalitsya v Tartarary" which means "to disappear" without a trace. Pokrovskaya fortress is near Omsk in Siberia. I guess this saying might have a direct meaning. This fortress was constructed, as the history books tell us, in the middle of 18th century, guess when it was disassembled? Start of the 19th century. Not a single stone left and we can only see it was there from bird's eye view. What was the point in having it for 50 years? Why not disassemble Kremlin than? To add to the mystery, its territory is protected by state and archeological excavations on site are forbidden. Another one near Rostov.This link is in Russian but you can see a great collection of such destroyed fortresses on Tartarian territories.Siberia is usually portrayed as a wild territory with no culture, but how could we know if all its major cities were burned at the end of the "exploration" and most fortresses - destroyed?It still exists on the maps though.There is a huge amount on this on the Russian segment of the web, I can't translate all of this of course and some assumptions look a bit over the top.To finish this, here is a video of president Putin coming to Russian academy of sciences and presenting them with an ancient book saying it has some really interesting facts in it = like Russians and "Golden Horde" fighting against other Russians and "Golden Horde" (btw "orda" or horde meant "army" in the old Russian, according to history books "Golden Horde" came from where Tartaria was on the map. Modern scientists are saying tatars and tartars are the same, but this looks pure BS, for example here you can see Russian and Tartars are basically one people, ecen dressed the same and looking surprisingly European.The video is brief but you can see another map with Tartaria on it, saying Great Tartaria's capital is in Tobolsk.