Horde

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Horde, a term of Turkic origin meaning a clan of nomads (ultimately from the Turkic ordu, orda meaning "encampment" ^[1], cf. Tatar: Urda; Mongolian: Ордын; Turkish: 'Ordu'; cf. the related term yurt), may refer to:

• the White Horde, formed 1226.
• the Blue Horde, formed 1227.
• the Golden Horde, a Tatar-Mongol state established in the 1240s
• the Nogai Horde, a Tatar clan situated in the Caucasus Mountain region, formed in the 1390s.
• Jüz, the traditional divisions of Kazakh society, consisting of the Greater, Middle and Lesser Hordes.

In popular culture:

• Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, known colloquially in the West during the Cold War as the Red Horde
• Great Dark Horde, an independent fraternal/sororal group within the Society for Creative Anachronism
• Evil Horde, a group of fictional characters in Masters of the Universe media
• Horde (band), an unblack metal band
• The Golden Horde (band), a rock band
• Horde (software), a Web software programmers' framework
• The Horde, a 1994 action-strategy video game
• Locust Horde, main enemies in the Xbox 360 video game Gears of War
• Horde, one of the factions in Warcraft universe.
• H.O.R.D.E., a music festival in the United States

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• Urdu, a Persianized register of the Khariboli language, takes its name from the same word.
• not to be confused with unrelated Hoard "treasure".