who are Tartars in the book northern lights/the golden compass?

Question

please dont give away any story line. just state what they are i.e. a group of savages, secret organisation, murderers ect

Answer 1

Great book! They are actually based on a real group of people but we don't use the word Tartar anymore.

Current day Tatars tend to live in the central and southern Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria, China, Kazakhstan, Romania, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. There were about 10 million of them in the late 20th century. Most Tatars are Muslims, but there are also significant Christian and Buddhist minorities.

The majority descended from Eastern European Volga Bulgars who were defeated by the Mongol invasion of the 13th century and kept the name of their conquerors.

The name of Tatars, given to the invaders, was afterwards extended so as to include different stems of the same Turkic-Mongol branch in Russia, and even the bulk of the inhabitants of the high plateau of Asia and its northwestern slopes, described under the general name of Tartary. This name has almost disappeared from geographical literature, but the name Tatars, in the above limited sense, remains in full use.

Answer 2

Hi there. The Tartars are the tribal descendants of the Mongol Horde
still living in the central steppes of the old soviet union. In terms of Northern Lights, fierce nomadic asiatic-type tribes occupying the steppes on the russian borders.
Cheers, Steve.

Answer 3

They are just barbarian ethic