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Four Oirats
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Oirat Confederation.
The Four Oirats (Written Oirat: ᡑᡈᠷᡋᡈᠨ
ᡆᡕᡅᠷᠠᡑ, Dörbön Oyirad; Mongolian: Дөрвөн Ойрад, romanized: Dörvön Oirad, pronounced; Chinese: 四衛拉特) or Oirat Confederation, formerly known as the Eleuths, was the confederation of the Oirat tribes which marked the rise of the Western Mongols in the history of the Mongolian Plateau.