The Torghut (Mongolian: Торгууд, ᠲᠤᠷᠭᠣᠣᠠ, Torguud, "Guardsman", simplified Chinese: 土尔扈特; traditional Chinese: 土爾扈特) are one of the four major subgroups...

donkeys and camels. Paul Pelliot translated the name "Torghut" as garde de jour. He wrote that the Torghuts owed their name either to the memory of the guard...

known as Torghuts. While the first phase of their movement became the Old Torghuts, the Qing called the later Torghut immigrants "New Torghut". Various...

composed of four major tribes: Dzungar (Choros or Olots/Elut/Yelut/Èlǔtè), Torghut, Dörbet and Khoshut. The political elite of the Rouran and Tobgach empires...

Olots), Torghut, Zakhchin. Kalmyks — Baatud, Buzava, Choros, Durvud, Khoid, Olots, Torghut. Upper Mongolian Oirats — Choros, Khoshut, Torghut. In modern-day...

(also written Derbet) and the Khoid. Later on, elements of the Khoshut and Torghut were forcibly incorporated into the Dzungar military, thus completing the...

Dzungar Khoid Khoshut Khoton* Kalmyk incl. Buzava Myangad Olot Sart Kalmyk Torghut Upper Mongols Zakhchin Buryats Barga Hamnigan* Soyot* Other Aimaq** Bonan...

1644) was an Oirat prince and Taish of the Torghut-Oirat tribe. Around 1616, Kho Orluk persuaded the other Torghut princes and lesser nobility to move their...

language account of his meeting with the Torghut Mongol leader Ayuka Khan, it was mentioned that while the Torghuts were unlike the Russians, the "people...

caused the Torghut chief Kho Orluk to migrate westwards until they came into conflict with the Nogai Horde, which they destroyed. The Torghuts founded the...