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Niketas Choniates

1155 - 1217

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Niketas or Nicetas Choniates (Medieval Greek: Νικήτας Χωνιάτης; c. 1155 – 1217), whose actual surname was Akominatos (Ἀκομινάτος), was a Byzantine Greek historian and politician – like his brother Michael Akominatos, whom he accompanied to Constantinople from their birthplace Chonae (from which came his nickname, "Choniates" meaning "person from Chonae"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Niketas Choniates has received more than 131,447 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Niketas Choniates is the 45th most popular historian (down from 38th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 232nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Turkish Historian.

Niketas Choniates is most famous for his chronicle of the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade in 1204.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Niketas Choniates ranks 45 out of 339. Before him are Lucien Febvre, Samuel von Pufendorf, Aby Warburg, Ernst Gombrich, Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, and Ali ibn al-Athir. After him are Jared Diamond, François Guizot, Poggio Bracciolini, Tzvetan Todorov, Callisthenes, and John Skylitzes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1155, Niketas Choniates ranks 3. Before him are Isaac II Angelos and Alfonso VIII of Castile. After him are Benkei, Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi, Ottokar I of Bohemia, Henry the Young King, Kilij Arslan II, Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus, Peter II of Courtenay, Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia, and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera. Among people deceased in 1217, Niketas Choniates ranks 1. After him are Ibn Jubayr, Henry I of Castile, Inge II of Norway, Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia, Isabella, Countess of Gloucester, Lembitu, Caupo of Turaida, Philip Simonsson, Alexander Neckam, and David of Dinant.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Niketas Choniates ranks 245 out of 1,301. Before him are Alexios V Doukas (1140), Kenan Evren (1917), Justin II (520), Philippikos Bardanes (700), Attalus I (-269), and Ali ibn al-Athir (1160). After him are Isidore of Miletus (442), Arcesilaus (-315), Xenocrates (-396), Theophanes the Confessor (758), Novatian (220), and John IV Laskaris (1250).

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Among HISTORIANS In Turkey

Among historians born in Turkey, Niketas Choniates ranks 6. Before him are Herodotus (-484), Hecataeus of Miletus (-550), Cassius Dio (155), Arrian (89), and Ali ibn al-Athir (1160). After him are Socrates of Constantinople (380), Libanius (314), Eutropius (320), Ephorus (-400), George Kedrenos (1100), and Eunapius (349).

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