thumb|the strait of tartary connects the sea of okhostsk to the sea of japan. strait of tartary (gulf of tartary, gulf of tatary, tatar strait, tartar strait, strait of tartar, also russian: Ð¢Ð°ÑÐ°ÑÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð»Ð¸Ð², chinese: éé¼æµ·å³½, japanese: , mamiya strait) is a strait in the pacific ocean dividing the russian island of sakhalin from mainland asia (south-east russia), connecting the sea of okhotsk on the north with the sea of japan on the south. it is 900&nbsp;km long, 4â20 m deep, and 7.3&nbsp;km wide at the narrowest point. ==history==  the name tartars had long been used by europeans for various peoples of inner asia and north asia. since the manchus' rise to prominence in 1644, the name "tartars" became applied to them as well,starting since the first book about the manchu conquest: martino martini, de bello tartarico historia. antwerp 1654 and manchuria (and mongolia) became known to the europeans as the "chinese tartary".for example, jean-baptiste du halde,description gÃ©ographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la chine et de la tartarie chinoise (la haye: h. scheurleer, 1736) accordingly, when la pÃ©rouse charted most of the strait between sakhalin and the mainland "chinese tartary" in 1787, the body of water received the name of the strait (or channel, or gulf) of tartary. in japan, the strait is named after mamiya rinzÅ, who traveled to the strait in 1808 whereof the name was introduced by philipp franz von siebold in his book nippon: archiv zur beschreibung von japan (1832â54). on russian maps, the short narrowest section of the strait (south of the mouth of the amur) is called nevelskoy strait, after admiral gennady nevelskoy, who explored the area in 1848; the body of water north of there, into which the amur river flows, is the amur liman; and the name of "strait of tartary" is reserved for the largest section of the body of water, south of nevelskoy strait. th
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