 Their chieftain Edigu, the powerful warlord of the Golden Horde, officially founded Nogai Horde or Manghit Horde in the 14th-15th century.Turkish historians would record their tribal name as Manghit or Nogais, as opposed to the original Manghud or Mangudai.The mangudai or mungadai were military units of the Mongol Empire, but sources differ wildly in their descriptions.