Golden Horde

Golden Horde

English

Etymology

A reference to the gold-hung palace-tent (orda) of the Great Khan, whence all power was derived.[1]

Proper noun

Golden Horde

1. (historical) A Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire.
   • 1880, H. H. Howorth, History of the Mongols: From the 9th to the 19th Century, Longmans, Green, and Company, page 199:

     In that year all the sons of Juchi except Tuka Timur went to assist at the inauguration of Ogotai Khan, and he was left behind in charge of the Golden Horde.

   • 1970, Norman Spinrad, The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde‎, Doubleday, →ISBN:

     As the last Khan of the Golden Horde watched in senile befuddlement, the great silver bird issued a terrible battlecry and began to move.

Meronyms

• Blue Horde
• White Horde

Related terms

• orda

Translations

the Mongol invaders

Arabic: الْقَبِيلَة الذَّهَبِيَّة‎ f (al-qabīla aḏ-ḏahabiyya) Armenian: Ոսկե հորդա (Oske horda) Azerbaijani: Qızıl Orda Bashkir: Алтын Урҙа (Altın Urða) Belarusian: Залата́я Арда́ f (Zalatája Ardá) Bulgarian: Зла́тна орда́ f (Zlátna ordá) Chinese: Mandarin: 金帳汗國／金帐汗国 (zh) (Jīn Zhàng hàn guó) Chuvash: Ылтӑн Урта (Ylt̬ăn Urt̬a) Crimean Tatar: please add this translation if you can Czech: Zlatá horda f Estonian: Kuldhord Finnish: Kultainen orda French: Horde d'Or f Georgian: ოქროს ურდო (okros urdo) German: Goldene Horde f Hebrew: אורדת הזהב‎ Hindi: सुनहरा उर्दू (sunahrā urdū) Hungarian: Arany Horda (hu) Japanese: ジョチ・ウルス (Jochi-Urusu), 金帳汗国 (きんちょうかんこく, Kin Chō kankoku) Kalmyk: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: Алтын Орда (Altyn Orda) Korean: 황금 군단 (Hwanggeum Gundan), 킵차크 칸국 (Kipchakeu Kan'guk) Kyrgyz: Жучу Улусу (Juçu Ulusu) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: Златна Орда f (Zlatna Orda) Manchu: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: Алтан Орд (Altan Ord) Persian: اردوی زرین‎ (ordūy-e zarrīn) Polish: Złota Orda f Portuguese: Horda Dourada f Russian: Золота́я Орда́ (ru) f (Zolotája Ordá) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Златна хорда f Roman: Zlatna horda f Slovak: Zlatá horda f Slovene: Zlata horda f Spanish: Horda de Oro f Swedish: Gyllene horden (sv) c Tatar: Алтын Урда (Altın Urda) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: Altın Ordu Tuvan: Алдын Орда (Aldın Orda) Ukrainian: Золота́ Орда́ f (Zolotá Ordá) Urdu: please add this translation if you can Uyghur: ئالتۇن ئوردا‎ (altun orda) Uzbek: Oltin Oʻrda Vietnamese: Kim Trướng hãn quốc (金帳汗國) Yakut: Көмүс Ордуу (Kömüs Orduu), Дьучи Улууһу (Cuçi Uluuhu)

References

1. Christopher Pratt Atwood (2004), “Golden Horde”, in Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol empire, Facts On File, →ISBN, page 201

Further reading

• Golden Horde on Wikipedia.Wikipedia