The Western Mongol World in the Early Eighteenth Century: Kalmyks and Oirats in Vasilis Vatatzēs’s Periēgētikon and His 1732 Map of Central Asia

Q4 Arts and Humanities
Stefanos Kordosis
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The article revolves around the information on the Kalmyks and Oirats contained in Vasilis Vatatzēs’s Periēgētikon (Voyages). Vatatzēs, a Greek-Ottoman merchant who travelled in Central Asia in the first half of the eighteenth century, supplemented his text with a map (engraved and published in 1732 in London) and produced a biography of Shah Nader of Persia, the founder of the short-lived Afsharid dynasty. Vatatzēs travelled along the caravan routes connecting the cities of southern Siberia with the Khanates of Central Asia, as demonstrated by a reconstruction of his itineraries, reaching as far as Bukhara. Focusing on the nations of Central Asia, Vatatzēs’s accounts and map provide much information regarding western Mongolic nations, starting with the Kalmyks in the Volga region and reaching as far as the Oirats, to the NW of China.
十八世纪早期的西蒙古世界:Vasilis Vatatzēs 的《Periēgētikon》及其 1732 年《中亚地图》中的卡尔梅克人和花剌子模人
文章围绕 Vasilis Vatatzēs 的 Periēgētikon(《远航》)中有关卡尔梅克人和奥拉特人的信息展开。Vatatzēs 是一名希腊裔奥斯曼商人,18 世纪上半叶曾在中亚旅行,他在书中补充了一幅地图(1732 年在伦敦雕刻出版),并为短命的阿夫沙里德王朝的建立者波斯沙阿-纳德撰写了传记。瓦特泽斯曾沿着连接西伯利亚南部城市和中亚汗国的商队路线旅行,正如他的行程再现所显示的那样,最远到达布哈拉。瓦特萨斯的记述和地图以中亚国家为重点,提供了许多有关西蒙古国家的信息,从伏尔加河地区的卡尔梅克人开始,一直到中国西北部的鄂拉特人。
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Crossroads
Crossroads Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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