Nicetas
For the genus of moth, see Nicetas (moth).
Nicetas or Niketas (Νικήτας) is a Greek given name, meaning "victorious one" (from Nike "victory"). The veneration of martyr saint Nicetas the Goth in the medieval period gave rise to the Slavic form Nikita.
People called Nicetas
- Nicetas of Syracuse, (c400-335 BC) the name that Copernicus used to refer to Hicetas
- Nicetas of Smyrna, late 1st-century Greek sophist and rhetorician
- Nicetas of Remesiana, 4th-century bishop of the Dacians, now the patron saint of Romania
- Nicetas the Goth (Nikita), 4th-century martyr
- Nicetas (Bishop of Aquileia), archbishop of Aquileia in the mid-5th century
- Nicetas (cousin of Heraclius), of early 7th century, cousin of emperor Heraclius, his general in Egypt
- Niketas the Persian, a Byzantine officer during the 7th century
- Niketas (son of Artabasdos), of mid-8th century, eldest son of the usurper Artabasdos, Byzantine general
- Patriarch Nicetas I of Constantinople, 766 to 780
- Nicetas of Medikion (d. 824), monk and hegumenos, opponent of Iconoclasm; aka Nicetas the Confessor
- Saint Nicetas the Patrician (d. 836), eunuch Byzantine official and monk, opponent of Iconoclasm;
- Niketas Ooryphas (fl. 860–873), Byzantine official, patrician and admiral
- Nicetas of Byzantium, 9th-century scholar, author of polemic re Islam; aka Nicetas Byzantius
- Niketas (son of Ioube) (fl. 912)
- Nicetas of Heraclea, 11th century Greek catenist.
- Nicetas Eugenianus, Byzantine Greek author of Drosilla and Charicles
- Nicetas of Novgorod, saint and Bishop of Novgorod
- Nicetas of Nicomedia, 12th-century archbishop
- Nicetas of Chonae, 12th-century bishop in Byzantine Anatolia
- Nicetas, Bogomil bishop, 12th century, known in contemporary sources as papa Nicetas
- Niketas Choniates (c. 1155-1215/1216), Byzantine historian
- Niketas Scholares, 14th-century military leader who fought with John III of Trebizond
- Nicetas I of Constantinople
- Nicetas II Mountanes of Constantinople
- Nicetas the Paphlagonian
- Niketas Stethatos or Nicetas Pectoratus, 11th-century Eastern Orthodox saint who was an outspoken critic of the Latin West
- Nicetas of Naupactus
See also
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