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Niketas Choniates
Niketas Choniates was a Byzantine official and historian. His History covers the years 1118 to 1206 and is the main Greek source for the reigns of the Komnenian and Angelos emperors, the Bulgarian revolt of the Asen brothers and the Fourth Crusade. He witnessed the sack of Constantinople in 1204, which he described vividly, and ended his life in exile at Nicaea.
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