The Tartarian Empire: Inventing a modern lost civilization

What it claims

This blog post by John Coon reads Tartaria as a 20th-century rehash of Atlantis.It introduces the claim that the Tartarian Empire built even the original Penn Station in New York and the White House.It writes that the theory's real roots lie in 20th-century Russian nationalist propaganda.It explains this was an attempt to call Russia the 'true Tartaria.' It also reports that the Russian Geographical Society rebutted the claim, stating Russia was never called Tartaria.It includes two reader comments, one that takes the theory at face value and another that withholds judgment.

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