Tatars

Mongols were occasionally referred to as Tatars (or Tartars) by the people they terrorized. This was

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originally derived from Tata, a name the Mongols call themselves. However, when people realized this sounded a lot like Tartarus, Roman mythology’s variation of Hell, they started calling Mongols Tatars—“people from Tartarus,” meaning demons from hell.
The Tatar name is still in use, though it is not quite as threatening anymore. Today, “Tatar” refers to ethnically Turkish people who mainly live in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Siberia.