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The Oodians were an Armenian tribe that once inhabited the Armenian province of Oodi. [1]

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References

  1. Smith, Eli; Dwight, H. G. O. (1833). Researches of the Rev. E. Smith and Rev. H. G. O. Dwight in Armenia: Including a Journey through Asia Minor, and into Georgia and Persia, with a Visit to the Nestorian and Chaldean Christians of Oormiah and Salmas. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. p. 272. OCLC   670354828.