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The White Horde (, ; ), or more appropriately, the left wing of the Jochid ulus, was one of the uluses within the Mongol Empire formed around 1225, after the death of Jochi when his son, Orda Khan, inherited his father's appanage by the Jaxartes. It was the eastern constituent part of the Golden Horde (Jochid ulus) alongside the Blue Horde to the west.B.D. Grekov and A.Y. Yakubovski " The Golden Horde and its Downfall"
When Batu Khan sent a large Jochid delegation to Hulegu's campaign in the Middle East, it included a strong contingent under Kuli, a son of Orda. However, suspicious deaths of the latter and other Jochid princes (c.1259) angered the rulers of the Golden Horde. During the succession war between Kublai and Arik Boke from 1260 to 1264, the White Horde elites supported the latter. They also began to support the Ogedeid prince Kaidu because he was supported by the khans such as Berke and Mengu-Timur.
Since 1280, Orda's successor, Konchi or Köchü, had allied with the Yuan Dynasty and the Ilkhanate, in return, they rewarded him. According to Rashid-al-Din Hamadani's account or H.H.Howorth's analyze, Kunchi possessed the territory of Ghazna and Bamiyan under the suzerainty of either the or the Ilkhan.Stanley Lane-Poole-The Mohammedan Dynasties, p.227 Kunchi warned the Ilkhan Abagha of the upcoming invasion of Baraq (Chagatai Khan) in 1268. However, when the Borjigin princes, who operated on the Khagan Kublai's behalf in Central Asia and later rebelled, fought against each other, they appealed to Kunchi whose response is not clear.
Marco Polo describes the Horde as extremely cold area, saying:
In 1299, the White Horde Khan, Bayan, was deposed by his cousin, Kobelek, who took assistance from Kaidu and Duwa.Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth-History of the Mongols: from the 9th to the 19th century, Volume 2, p.220 By 1304, Bayan had reoccupied most of his ancestors' lands. His horde began to herd around Syr-Darya, replacing the Shaybanids. Bayan's troops included the Russians and Hungarians soldiers.
Their khan, Chimtai, sent his brothers to take the Golden Horde throne during the Blue Horde's period of anarchy, (1359-1380). But they were all murdered before reaching any success. Members from White Horde (sometimes it is confused with the Blue Horde), Khizr, and his son or relative, Arab Shaykh, briefly took the throne of the Golden Horde, using their army.It is unclear that Arab was his son. Some claimed that they were relatives.
In 1375, Urus Khan, the eighth khan of the White Horde, became a contested khan of both the Blue Horde and the White Horde.Peter Quennell-History today, Volume 9, p.154 He extruded the members from the House of Khizr.Slovenská akadémia vied. Kabinet orientalistiky, Ústav orientalistiky-Asian and African studies, Volume 24, p.139 Urus died in 1377, and when his nephew Tokhtamysh wrested control of the White Horde from Urus's son Timur-Malik in 1378, The struggle against the Khan Toqtamish he regained control of the Blue Horde as well. Thus, Toqtamish consolidated the two hordes, becoming the Khan of the Golden Horde.
After the defeat of Toqtamish in 1395–1396, Kuruichik was appointed head of the White Horde by Tamerlane.H.H.Howorth-History of the Mongols, v.II, p.287 Since then, families of Jochi's sons, Tuqa-Timur, Shiban and Orda, began to merge with each other, establishing the Uzbeks and Kazakh Khanate hordes. Among them, Kuruichik's descendant, Borog, briefly asserted the throne of the Golden Horde in 1421.
After Baraq's murder, the Horde divided into two parts with two khans: Mohammed and Mustafa. Mustafa reconquered the Horde; however, in Siberia, another threat emerged – Abu'l-Khayr Khan. In 1446, the latter gained the victory over Mustafa, ending the existence of Orda's ulus (the left wing of the Golden Horde).
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