Ordo (palace)

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 Turkic 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.

Etymologically, the word "orda" comes from the Turkic "ordu" which could mean camp, palace, tent, "seat of power" or "royal court".

Within the Liao Empire of the Khitans, the word ordo was used to refer to a nobleman's personal entourage or court, which included servants, retainers, and bodyguards. Emperors, empresses, and high ranking princes all had ordos of their own, which they were free to manage in practically any way they chose.

The Kazakh language name for a division of an army was jüz "hundred."

The word via Tatar passed into East Slavic as orda (орда), and by the 1550s into English as , probably via Polish and French or Spanish. The unetymological initial h- is found in all western European forms and was likely first attached in the Polish form horda.

Ordu or Ordo also means the Mongolian court. In Mongolian language, the Government Palace (Mongolia) is literally called Zasgiin gazriin ordon.

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