Orda Onuškis (akvarelė)
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 Urdă (; sq, urdha, indefinite form ''urdhë''; sr, / ; bg, урда, извара, urda, izvara; mk, урда, изварка, urda, izvarka; uk, вурда, vurda; hu, orda, zsendice) is a sort of whey cheese commonly produced in South ...

Orda (organization)
An orda (also ordu, ordo, or ordon) or horde was a historical sociopolitical and military structure found on the Eurasian Steppe, usually associated with the Turkic peoples, Turkic and Mongols, Mongol peoples. This form of entity can be seen as the regional equivalent of a clan or a tribe. Some successful ordas gave rise to khanates. While the East Slavic languages, East Slavic term ''ordo'' and later derived term ''horda/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"). Etymology Etymologically, the word "ordu" comes from the Turkic languages, Turkic "ordu" which means army in Turkic and Mongolian languages, "seat of power" or "royal court". Within the Liao Empire of the Khitan people, Khitans, the word ordo was used to refer to a nobleman's personal