Khoid
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Regions with significant populations | |
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Mongolia | 5 000[1] |
China | 15 000 |
Kalmykia | a few thousands? |
Languages | |
Oirat dialect | |
Religion | |
Tibetan Buddhism, Mongolian shamanism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Mongols, especially Oirats |
The Khoid, also Khoyd or Khoit (Chinese: 辉特; "Northern ones/people") people are an Oirat subgroup of the Choros clan. Once one of largest tribes of the Oirats.
- Amursana was a Khoid Oirat
- Partisans of Amursana, in the Battle of Khorgos against Qing China (1758)
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