Kho Orluk

{{Short description|17th-century Taish of the Torghut-Oirat tribe}}

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Kho Orluk ({{langx|mn|Хо өрлөг|Kho örlög}}; 1580-1644) was an Oirat prince and Taish of the Torghut-Oirat tribe. Around 1616, Kho Orluk persuaded the other Torghut princes and lesser nobility to move their tribe en masse westward through southern Siberia and southward along the Emba River to the grass steppes north of the Russian garrison at Astrakhan.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCglDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92&dq=Kho+Orluk#q=Kho%20Orluk|title=Buddhist Modernities: Re-inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World|last1=Havnevik|first1=Hanna|last2=Hüsken|first2=Ute|last3=Teeuwen|first3=Mark|last4=Tikhonov|first4=Vladimir|last5=Wellens|first5=Koen|date=2017-02-17|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781134884759|pages=92|language=en}} During the process of securing the steppes for his people, Kho Orluk met limited resistance from the local Muslim tribesman, therefore setting the foundation of what later became known as the Kalmyk Khanate.

In 1620 his daughter married Ishim Khan (son of Kuchum, Khan of Sibir).{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/empireofsteppes00grou|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/empireofsteppes00grou/page/521 521]|quote=ishim-khan married.|title=The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia|last=Grousset|first=René|date=1970|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813513041|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyogLC4SdRsC&pg=PA2&dq=ishim-khan+married#q=ishim-khan%20married|title=Kalmykia in Russia's Past and Present National Policies and Administrative System|last=Maksimov|first=Konstantin Nikolaevich|date=2008|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=9789639776173|pages=2|language=en}}