Oirat Confederation
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The Four Oirat (Mongolian: Дөрвөн Ойрад, Dorben Oirad; Chinese: 四衛拉特); also Oirads and formerly Eleuths, alternatively known as the Alliance of the Four Oirat Tribes or the Oirat Confederation, was the confederation of the Oirat tribes which marked the rise of the Western Mongols in the history of the Mongolian Plateau.
Alliance of the Four Oirats ᠳᠥᠷᠪᠡᠨ ᠣᠶᠢᠷᠠᠳ Дөрвөн Ойрад Dorben Oirad | |||||||||||||
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1399–1634 | |||||||||||||
Status | Confederation | ||||||||||||
Common languages | Mongolic | ||||||||||||
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Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
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Historical era | Postclassical to early modern period | ||||||||||||
• Möngke-Temür places himself at the head of the Oirats | 1399 | ||||||||||||
• Oirats overthrow a Genghisid Khagan | 1399 | ||||||||||||
1453-54 | |||||||||||||
• Movement of the Torghuds to the Volga | 1616–17 | ||||||||||||
1630s | |||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1634 | ||||||||||||
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Despite the universal currency of the term "Four Oirat" among Eastern Mongols, Oirats, and numerous explanations by historians, no consensus has been reached on the identity of the original four tribes. While it is believed that the term Four Oirats refers to the Choros, Torghut, Dorbet and Khoid tribes,[2] there is a theory that the Oirats were not consanguineous units, but political-ethnic units composed of many patrilineages.[3] In the early period, the Kergüd tribe also belonged to the confederation.[4]