Nicetas

Nicetas or Nikitas or Niketas () is a Greek given name, meaning "victorious one" (from Nike "victory"). The veneration of martyr saint Nicetas the Goth in the medieval period gave rise to the Slavic forms: Nikita, Mykyta and Mikita

==People with the name Nicetas== Nicetes (or Nicetas) of Smyrna, late 1st-century Greek sophist and rhetorician, see Second Sophistic Nicetas of Remesiana, 4th-century bishop of the Dacians, now the patron saint of Romania Nicetas the Goth, 4th-century martyr Nicetas (Bishop of Aquileia), mid-5th-century archbishop of Aquileia Nicetas (cousin of Heraclius), early 7th-century Byzantine general Niketas the Persian, 7th-century Byzantine officer Nicetas Scutariota, a Byzantine writer from Scutari (modern Üsküdar) Niketas (son of Artabasdos), mid-8th-century Byzantine general Nicetas of Medikion (Nicetas the Confessor, 783 – 824), Byzantine monk and hegumenos Nicetas the Patrician (Nicetas Monomachos, 761 – 836), Byzantine eunuch official and monk, opponent of Iconoclasm Niketas Byzantios, ninth century, Byzantine theologian, school of Photius, wrote on Islam Niketas Ooryphas ( 860 – 873), Byzantine official, patrician and admiral Niketas (son of Ioube) ( 912), Byzantine general and governor Nicetas of Heraclea, 11th-century Greek catenist Nicetas Eugenianus, Byzantine Greek author of Drosilla and Charicles, see Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie Nicetas of Novgorod ( 1095 – 1108), saint and Bishop of Novgorod Nicetas Serron, archbishop of Serres and afterwards of Heraclea, and writer. Around 11th century Nicetas of Nicomedia, 12th-century archbishop Nicetas of Chonae, 12th-century bishop in Byzantine Anatolia Nicetas Thessalonicensis, archbishop of Thessalonica and writer, around 1200 Nicetas (Bogomil bishop) (papa Nicetas), 12th-century bishop of Constantinople Niketas Choniates ( 1155 – c. 1215), Byzantine historian Niketas Scholares ( 1341 – 1361), Byzantine Greek military leader Nicetas I of Constantinople ( 766 – 780), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nicetas II of Constantinople ( 1186 – 1189), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Niketas Stethatos (Nicetas Pectoratus, 1005 – c. 1090), Byzantine mystic and theologian Nicetas of Naupactus, see Minuscule 886 Nikon Nizetas, cover name of WW1 spy Alfred Redl