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...

Polo, translated by Henry Yule, 1920 According to a legend of the local Torghut population, in 1372 a Mongol military general named Khara Bator was surrounded...

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

to the Kalmyk Khanate to convey an imperial edict to Ayuka Khan of the Torghuts. They left Beijing, crossed Mongolia and then entered Russia. In order...

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

Ubashi Khan (Mongolian: ᠣᠪᠠᠱᠢ ᠬᠠᠨ; Chinese: 渥巴锡汗; 1744 – 1774) was a Torghut-Kalmyk prince and the last Khan of the Kalmyk Khanate. In January 1771, he...

Khanate in c. 1758. They were largely mixed with the Dzungar people and Torghut of the region. When Outer Mongolia declared its independence from the Qing...

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...

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

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

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 leader Ayuka Khan, it was written that, while the Torghuts were unlike the Russians, the "people of the...

1758 annexed by Qing dynasty Kalmyk Khanate, established c.1630 by the Torghut branch of the Mongol Oirats, settled along the lower Volga River (in modern...

While it is believed that the term Four Oirats refers to the Choros, Torghut, Dorbet and Khoid tribes, there is a theory that the Oirats were not consanguineous...

guard, Torguud. According to an oral tradition, their descendants could be Torghut people. After the defeat of Wang Khan in 1203, Genghis established the...

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

of convenience; Dalai Taishi and Khoshut leader Güshi Khan married the Torghut leader Kho Orluk sisters. During the Dalai Taishi period (circa 1625),...

al-Tawarikh, Doquz Khatun was a daughter of Uyku. Starting from 15th century, Torghut nobles claimed descent from Toghrul. Marie Therese Gousset, p.42 Igor de...

the Genghisid line. During the Toluid Civil War, the Four Oirat (Choros, Torghut, Dörbet, and Khoid) sided with Ariq Böke and therefore never accepted Kublaid...

was later identified as coming from a Soyot source. In a tale from the Torghut of Karasahr, collected by Adam Benningsen [ru] with the title "Сказка о...

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

and Kharchin) Four tümen Oirats: Choros, Olots, Durvud, Khoid, Baatud, Torghut, Khoshut, Ur (Ör) Mongol, Barga Mongols and Buryats. The Barga and Buryats...

Manchu traveller Qi-yi-shi reported the presence of prostitution among Torghut and Khoshut women in the Karasahr area of Xinjiang in 1777. He also wrote...

separate banner in Bulgan Province, Khovd Province; but they were counted as Torghut who migrated with them in much larger numbers. The Khoshuts in Alashan...

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

counties and one Hui autonomous county. Mihrigul Tursun China portal Lop Nur Torghut 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州历史沿革 [Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture Historical Development]...