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| | The Mongol Kings |
 | | Jochi, the eldest son had, however, already died; so his sector was actually divided between his own sons, Batu (the Blue Horde), Orda (the White Horde), and Shiban, later united into the Golden Horde, the most durable of the Mongol regimes. |
 | | Only the Golden Horde ("horde" from ordu, "army") retained a steppe base and steppe culture, consequently lasting more than three centuries, rather than less than 90 years like both the Ilkhâns in the Middle East or the Yüan Dynasty in China. |
 | | Remnants of the Golden Horde passed in 1502 to the Crimea, which, as a vassal of the Ottoman Empire (as of 1475), held out the longest against Russian power. |
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