Niketas Choniates

Greek historian (1155-1217)

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Niketas Choniates was a male Byzantine Empire citizen who worked as a politician, writer, and historian. He wrote in medieval Greek and was associated with the field of history. His religious worldview was Eastern Orthodoxy. He held the military rank of strategos.

He was born on 1 January 1155 and died on 1 January 1217 in Nicaea. He had a sibling named Michael Choniates. His works have been described by the Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.

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Monarchs: Alexios III Angelos , Isaac II Angelos &, Alexios IV Angelos
Preceded by: John Belissariotes
Monarch: Alexios III Angelos
Born: Niketas Akominatos , c. 1155 , Colossae , Byzantine Empire
Died: 1217, Empire of Nicaea
Relations: Michael Choniates (brother), John Belissariotes ( brother-in-law )

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Byzantine Empire
Place of death: Nicaea
Sibling: Michael Choniates
Occupation: historian
Languages spoken: medieval Greek
Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy
Field of work: history
Military rank: strategos
Image: Niketas Choniates.JPG

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date of birth: 1155-01-01
date of death: 1217-01-01
writing language: medieval Greek
Commons Creator page: Niketas Choniates

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14 objects attributed to Niketas Choniates, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Historia degli imperatori greci (1117 - 1203) : A quectiosono aggiunti gli annali degli Imperat. Constant. ; Con l'historia delle parti dell'Oriente scritta da Haithone parente del Re d'Armenia

Della Historia delle cose dell'Imperio di Constantinopoli Libri VII.

Historia Rervm In Oriente Gestarvm Ab Exordio Mvndi Et Orbe Condito Ad Nostra Haec Vsqve Tempora : In Qva ... de origine ... Assyriorvm, Medorvm, Et Persarvm, Graecorvm & Macedonvm ... explicantur

Nikēta tu Choniatu ta heuriskomena panta. accurante et denuo recogn. J.-P. Migne. 2 (1865)

Nikēta tu Choniatu ta heuriskomena panta. accurante et denuo recogn. J.-P. Migne. 1 (1865)

Historia - BSB Cod.graec. 450

Corpus Byzantinae Historiae. [12,2]. Historia. Hieronymo Wolfio Oetingensi Interprete. Editio Glossario Graeco-barbaro auctior ... Caroli Annibalis Fabroti

Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae. [14]. Nicetae Choniatae historia ; ex recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri

Historia Rervm In Oriente Gestarvm Ab Exordio Mvndi Et Orbe Condito Ad Nostra Haec Vsqve Tempora : In Qva ... de origine ... Assyriorvm, Medorvm, Et Persarvm, Graecorvm & Macedonvm ... explicantur

Corpvs Historiae Byzantinae : In Qvo Non Solvm Res A Graecis Imperatoribvs A Tempore Constantini Magni, Ad Constantinvm Postremvm, Et Constantinopolim A Tvrcis Occvpatam, sed & ab exordio mundi in varijs orbis partibus hinc inde gestae, continua serie, eruditè ac luculenter exponuntur ...

Historia Imperatorvm Romanorvm A Constantino Magno ... usq[ue] ad Constantinum postremum, et Constantinopolim a Turcis occupatam ...

Historia degli imperatori Graeci

Imperii Graeci historia

Historia Imperatorvm Romanorvm A Constantino Magno ... usq[ue] ad Constantinum postremum, et Constantinopolim a Turcis occupatam ...

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Encyclopedic overview

Niketas or Nicetas Choniates (Medieval Greek: Νικήτας Χωνιάτης; c. 1155 – 1217), whose actual surname was Akominatos (Ἀκομινάτος), was a Byzantine Greek historian and politician. He accompanied his brother Michael Akominatos to Constantinople from their birthplace Chonae (from which came his nickname, "Choniates" meaning "person from Chonae"). Nicetas wrote a history of the Eastern Roman Empire from 1118 to 1207.

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