Karte von der westlichen Tartarey

Title

Karte von der westlichen Tartarey

Description

Map shows Mongolia and the eastern Mongolia in China. Its area is roughly equivalent with the historical territory of Outer Mongolia, and that term is sometimes used to refer to the current state. It is sandwiched between Russia to the north and China to the south, where it neighbours the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The area of what is now Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Rouran, the Turkic Khaganate, and others.

dated 1749

Artist

Bellin (1703-1772)

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 Paris -1772 Versailles) was a French cartographer, engineer-geographer, marine hydrographer. As a contributor to the Encyclopédie, he wrote more than a thousand articles on maritime topics. As a cartographer, Bellin distinguished himself primarily in the field of sea cartography. From 1721 he worked for the Dépot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, from 1741 until his death as an engineer-hydrograph of the Navy. In 1753 his atlas Neptune français, which covered all the coasts of France, was published, and in 1756 the hydrography françoise covering all seas of the earth. In 1764 the five-volume Petit Atlas maritime was published, which Bellin prepared on the orders of the Minister of the Navy, Choiseul. In addition, he wrote a number of geographical works and with Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la geographie (1769) a geographic textbook for teaching. His maps illustrated, among other things, Bougainville's work Voyage autour du monde, published in 1771. As a co-author of the Encyclopédie edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, Bellin wrote more than a thousand articles in the field of shipping and navy.

Historical Description

Part of Central Asia and lies between Russia in the north and the People's Republic of China in the south. The name Mongols may have arisen after the Tang Dynasty (7th to 10th centuries). In the 8th century Turkic people, especially the Uyghurs, took over, in the 10th century the Kitan survived the Liao dynasty, which lasted until 1125. In the 12th century, Temüdschin succeeded in uniting the Mongolian tribes, which had been destroyed among themselves, and formed a state from them. Around 1206 he became Genghis Khan as the leader of all Mongol rights. The traditional Mongolian laws interested in Genghis Khan Managemente law Jassa became solely about new laws that required those of the Mongol empire. Before his death, Genghis Khan had his empire in four khanates. His grandson Batu gained power over Central Asia and the Golden Horde there. Pol Uri gained power over Mongolia and Ögedei was betrayed with rule over China and East Asia. Ögedei Khan managed to continue to exempt the empire and change and belong to its territory. The last Grand Khan, all Mongolian political empires, war Timur Khan. As before the time of Genghis Khan stiffening the Mongolian borders of the central empire, the rulers of the Ming dynasty were moved to keep the state wall still outstanding and to own it. Partial fights between Mongolian tribes spurred on by China. As a result of a long war between the two, which refer to the Mongolian estates, the Oirates and the Chalcha, which belong to the Oirates from the new Mongolia. In Altan Khan's reign, Tibetan Buddhism began to become the state religion of the Mongols.