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Wikipedia
Orda may refer to:
- Orda (organization), a historical sociopolitical and military structure of Mongol Eurasia
- Orda Khan, a 13th-century Mongol Khan
- Orda (rural locality), several rural localities in Russia
- Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA), a public benefit corporation in New York, United States
- Orda, Hungarian name of urdă, a whey cheese
Orda is the name of several rural localities in Russia:
- Orda, Perm Krai, a selo in Ordinsky District of Perm Krai
- Orda, Tver Oblast, a village in Vesyegonsky District of Tver Oblast
- Orda, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Poshekhonsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast
An orda (also orda, ordu, ordo, or ordon) or horde was a historical sociopolitical and military structure found on the Eurasian Steppe, usually associated with the Turkic raiders and Mongols. This entity can be seen as the regional equivalent of a clan or a tribe. Some successful ordas gave rise to khanates.
While the Slavic term ordo and the western term horde were in origin borrowings from the Mongol term ordo for "camp, headquarters", the original term did not carry the meaning of a large khanate such as the Golden Horde. These structures were contemporarily referred to as ulus ("nation" or "tribe"). It was only in the Late Middle Ages that the Slavic usage of orda was borrowed back into the Turkic languages.
Usage examples of "orda".
The fact that they even knew that word is evidence that they had reason to fear the orda as much as any child did.
Before Orda had decided I was who I said I was, I and a few of his men had gone a few rounds.