The Tzads ( hy, Tzadn) were a

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community, most likely of

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origin. These were members of the

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who converted to the official

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faith of

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, which upheld the decrees of the

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.Hacikyan, Agop Jack et al. (2000), ''The Heritage of Armenian Literature'', p. 251.

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, . They are attested and their society described in details in the work by the tenth-century Armenian chronicler

Ukhtanes of Sebastia Ukhtanes of Sebastia ( hy, Ուխտանես Սեբաստացի, ''Ukhtanes Sebastatsi'') (c. 935-1000) was an Armenian historian and prelate. Educated at the Monastery of Narek under the tutelage of its founder Anania, he eventually attained to the ...

(c. 935-1000).

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