Shiwei, was an umbrella term for Mongols and Tungusic peoples that inhabited far-eastern Mongolia, northern Inner Mongolia, the area near the Okhotsk Sea beach, and which northern location, depending on the context, Manchuria can either refer to a region that falls entirely within which country, or a larger region divided between China and Russia?
Shiwei Shiwei () was an umbrella term for Mongols and Tungusic peoples that inhabited far-eastern Mongolia, northern Inner Mongolia, northern Manchuria and the area near the Okhotsk Sea beach. Records mentioning the Shiwei were recorded from the time of the Northern Wei (386-534) until the rise of the Mongols under Genghis Khan in 1206 when the name "Mongol" and "Tatar" were applied to all the Shiwei tribes.
Tartary Tartary (Latin: "Tartaria") or Great Tartary (Latin: "Tartaria Magna") was a name used from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century to designate the great tract of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, settled mostly by Turko-Mongol peoples after the Mongol invasion and the subsequent Turkic migrations.