Abstract:

The history of the Byzantine Empire has always been interesting among the research subjects of medieval history. However, due to the difficulty of the source language, access to the sources and the difficulties of reading, examining and translating these sources, the subject remains a subject that is little studied and limited parts of it are studied. In this study, Niketas Choniates' Historia, which is important about this subject and is a work that tells the events from 1118 to the first period of the thirteenth century, with the language of its witnesses, is discussed. Although it has an extremely difficult and complex style, the fact that it is the only source of Byzantine history that has reached us from the end of the twelfth century makes this study a must-see for history researchers and especially for those who study Byzantine history. In this study, this valuable work has been tried to be examined by making evaluations and inferences both in terms of content, source value and how a Byzantine historical source should be.