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Nicetas Choniates

Type Figure Region Byzantine Empire Time c. 1155–1217 Also known as Niketas Koniates

Nicetas Choniates (c. 1155–c. 1217) was a Byzantine historian and official of the 12th–13th centuries, born at Chonae in Phrygia, who witnessed the o…

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  1. 1155–1175Chonae · PhrygiaBorn at Chonae in Phrygia, Asia Minor, he received a classical education before going to Constantinople to study and entering the bureaucracy; his birth year is around 1155.
  2. 1175–1204Constantinople · ThraceHe held various civil and judicial posts in Constantinople, witnessing events such as the popular uprising of 1185, the coup of 1195, and the Latin capture of the capital in 1204.
  3. 1204–1217Nicaea · BithyniaAfter the fall of the capital he fled to Nicaea and elsewhere, writing his 'History' covering the empire's crisis from the last Komnenian emperors to the Latin occupation, and leaving an eyewitness account of the catastrophe of 1204.

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