OriginFrom Classical Mongolian ᠣᠷᠳᠣᠰ (ordos, “palaces”), from Classical Mongolian ᠣᠷᠳᠣ (ordo, “palace”) + ᠊ᠰ (-s, plural suffix); probably from Proto-Turkic *or- (“army, place of staying of the army, ruler etc.”). Originally in reference to the portable mausoleums of Genghis Khan (known as the "eight white yurts"), which were used following the fall of the Yuan dynasty in 1368. These were entrusted to caretakers, who worshipped at the mausoleums as the "soul guards" of the khan, and who moved to the Ordos plateau in the years following. After a time, both the people and their territory took the name, due to the presence of the mausoleums there.
- form-of, pluralplural of ordo
- A region of China, enclosed by the great northern bend of the Yellow River and the Wei River to the south; also called Ordos Loop.
“The Chinese Moslems, who constitute the largest minority, number about 700,000. They are organized in two autonomous chou and three autonomous hsien. The Wuchung Moslem Autonomous Chou, situated east ”
“The river, which is some 3,028 miles long and has a catchment basin of 250,000 sq. miles, rises in the Bayan Kara Shan (15,000 ft) of north-east Tibet and flows as a mountain torrent above Lanchow. Be”
- The Ordos region proper: the area north of the Great Wall section that cuts across the Ordos Loop
“The Ordos region in the narrower sense is nomadic by history, in contrast to the agricultural and densely populated southeastern loess part that stretches up to the Wei River valley.”
- Ordos prefecture-level city, contiguous with latter region in the northwest of the Ordos Loop, namely the part belonging to Inner Mongolia.
“Kangbashi District, the famous Chinese newly-built ghost town, lies in the mineral-rich region of Ordos, more precisely 25 km away from Dongsheng built-up area in Dongsheng District, the municipal sea”
“That prompted Buhchulu to quote yet another saying of this medieval eco-crusader: "'Don't freely dig up the earth!'"
FREELY DIGGING UP the earth is exactly what I saw during a long, numbingly cold bus”
“One rather frightening place those cars and bridges can reach is the Ghost City of Ordos. The original old Ordos lies on top of one-sixth of all the coal reserves of China. So despite its remote locat”
- Ordos city in the narrower sense: the urban area located in Dongsheng District.
- A Mongolian dialect used in this city.