Niketas Choniates

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Niketas Choniates
Νικήτας Χωνιάτης
Choniates in an ancient manuscript
Born	c. 1155 Colossae
Died	1217 (aged 61–62)
Occupations	Historian politician
Family	Michael Choniates (brother)

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.