Tzigatos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VIII |
| Dates | 774 (taq) / 774 (tpq) |
| Ethnicity | Bulgar |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Tzigatos 1 was an envoy of the Bulgars to Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) in 774; he and a boyar (βοϊλᾶν) (Anonymus 741) negotiated peace with the Romans: Theoph. AM 6265 (ἀπέστειλαν βοϊλᾶν καὶ Τζιγάτον, αἰτούμενοι εἰρήνην γενέσθαι). Presumably he was a Bulgar.
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