Dörbet Oirat
Location of the Dörbet in the Oirat Confederation | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 130,000–150,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Mongolia | 72,403 |
| Russia | 54,000 |
| Languages | |
| Oirat, Russian, Mongolian | |
| Religion | |
| Tibetan Buddhism, Mongolian Shamanism, Atheism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Mongols, especially Oirats | |
The Dörbet (UK: /ˈdɜːbɛt/, US: /ˈdɔːrbɛt/), known in English as The Fours, is the second largest subgroup of Mongol people in modern Mongolia and was formerly one of the major tribes of the Four Oirat confederation in the 15th-18th centuries. In early times, the Dörbets and the Ööld were overruled by collateral branches of the Choros lineage. The Dörbets are distributed among the western provinces of Mongolia, Kalmykia and in a small portion in Heilongjiang, China. In modern-day Mongolia, the Dörbets are centered in Uvs Province.