Tarascon
a walled town of France, the Provençal department Bouches-du-Rhône; 14 miles S. W. of Avignon and 8 N. of Arles. King René's castle, dating from 1400, is picturesque and well preserved; and a Gothic church (1187-14th century) is dedicated to St.
Martha, who here is said to have subdued a dragon. But Tarascon is chiefly famous through associations with the immortal Tartarin. It has manufactures of woolen and silk fabrics, "saucissons d'Arles," etc. Pop. about 8,500.
TARBAGATAI (-tī), range of mountains, 10,000 feet high, in Russian central Asia, on the frontier between Semipalatinsk on the N. and Chinese Zungaria.