Oirat Confederation

Alliance of the Four Oirats ᠳᠥᠷᠪᠡᠨ ᠣᠶᠢᠷᠠᠳ Дөрвөн Ойрад Dorben Oirad
1399–1634
1600 YARKENT KHANATE TURPAN KHANATE TSANGPA CHAM- PA KYRGYZ            KHANATE MING DYNASTY MUGHAL EMPIRE VIJAYA NAGARA MADURAI SAFAVID EMPIRE OTTOMAN EMPIRE KHIVA KHANATE BUKHARA KHANATE KAZAKH KHANATE TSARDOM OF RUSSIA CRIMEAN KHANATE JO- SEON AYUT- THAYA DAI VIET LAN NA FOUR OIRATS NORTHERN YUAN ◁ ▷ The Oirat Confederation and contemporary Asian polities c. 1600
Status	Confederation
Common languages	Mongolic
Religion	Mongolian shamanism later Buddhism
Government	Monarchy
Taishi
Legislature	Customary rules[1] Mongol-Oirat Code
Historical era	Postclassical to early modern period
• Möngke-Temür places himself at the head of the Oirats	1399
• Oirats overthrow a Genghisid Khagan	1399
• Esen Taishi becomes Northern Yuan Khagan	1453-54
• Movement of the Torghuds to the Volga	1616–17
• Establishments of the Dzungar Khanate and the Khoshut Khanate	1630s
• Disestablished	1634
Preceded by Succeeded by Northern Yuan Dzungar Khanate Kalmyk Khanate Khoshut Khanate

The Four Oirat (Mongolian: Дөрвөн Ойрад, Dorben Oirad; Chinese: 四衛拉特); also Oirads and formerly Eleuths, alternatively known as the Alliance of the Four Oirat Tribes or the Oirat Confederation, was the confederation of the Oirat tribes which marked the rise of the Western Mongols in the history of the Mongolian Plateau.

Despite the universal currency of the term "Four Oirat" among Eastern Mongols, Oirats, and numerous explanations by historians, no consensus has been reached on the identity of the original four tribes. While it is believed that the term Four Oirats refers to the Choros, Torghut, Dorbet and Khoid tribes,^[2] there is a theory that the Oirats were not consanguineous units, but political-ethnic units composed of many patrilineages.^[3] In the early period, the Kergüd tribe also belonged to the confederation.^[4]