Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Dörbet (Mongolian: Дөрвөд Dörvöd ᠳᠥᠷᠪᠡᠳ lit. the Fours; Chinese: 杜尔伯特部; pinyin: Dù’ěrbótè Bù) is the second largest subgroup of the Mongol people in modern Mongolia and was one of the major tribes of the Four Oirat confederation in the 15th-18th centuries. In early times the Dörbet and the Zunghars were ruled by collateral branches of the Choros. The Dörbets are distributed among the western provinces of Mongolia Kalmykia and in a small portion in Heilongjiang China.
