Tartars

I am an alumnus of Wayne State University in Detroit during the days when our team was called the Tartars, long before they became the Warriors.

Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D.: Obama vs. Newt or Mitt Can't Compare to the Fighting Okras vs. the Gorillas Ph.D. Harvey Gotliffe 2011

I am an alumnus of Wayne State University in Detroit during the days when our team was called the Tartars, long before they became the Warriors.

Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D.: Obama vs. Newt or Mitt Can't Compare to the Fighting Okras vs. the Gorillas Ph.D. Harvey Gotliffe 2011

They are commonly called Tartars, but some call them Tauermen, and others Petchenegs.

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

I am an alumnus of Wayne State University in Detroit during the days when our team was called the Tartars, long before they became the Warriors.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ph.D. Harvey Gotliffe 2011

Tartars is almost consumed, they slaughter the greatest part of their cattle, and preserve the flesh, either smoked, or dried in the sun.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

For the Tartars were another nation, as I was informed by them.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

For the Tartars were another nation, as I was informed by them.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And this present Summer, the foresayd nation, being called Tartars, departing out of Hungarie, which they had surprised by treason, layd siege vnto the very same towne, wherein

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Whereunto I answered that the Tartars were a barbarous people, and utterly ignorant in the art of navigation, not knowing the use of the sea-card, compass, or star, which he confessed true; and therefore they could not (said I) certainly know the south-east from the north-east in a wide sea, and a place unknown from the sight of the land.

The North-West Passage 2003

Of course, he thought, de Gobignon must have realized that the Tartars might be a target, and he was moving them to a safer place.

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963