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Orda was a Mongol khan, the eldest grandson of Genghis Khan, son of Jöchi and the founder of White Horde. Orda was known to have participated in the massive Mongol invasion of Rus in 1237-1242.
At Genghis's death, he got the eastern part of Jochi's lands as his inheritance, which roughly comprised the territories lying between Lake Balkhash and the Volga river, where he founded the state of the White Horde. West of the Volga lay the lands of his younger brother Batu, known as the Blue Horde.
After Orda died, his khanate was controlled by his direct descendants until the 1380's when one of Orda's descendants, Tokhtamysh, dethroned the Batukhanids and ascended the throne of both the White and the Blue Horde creating the Golden Horde in the late 14th century.
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