Archons

thumb|260x260px|Fragmentary inscription bearing the names of six city archons (politarchs), 2nd century BC, Archaeological Museum of Pella Archon (, plural: , árchontes) is a Greek word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem , meaning "to be first, to rule" (see also "beginning, origin"), derived from the same root as words such as monarch and hierarchy.

Ethnarch (pronounced , also ethnarches, ) is a term that refers generally to political leadership over a common ethnic group or homogeneous kingdom. The word is derived from the Greek words (ethnos, "tribe/nation") and (archon, "leader/ruler"). ''Strong's Concordance'' gives the definition of 'ethnarch' as "the governor (not king) of a district".

thumb|Datis fighting the polemarch of Athens Kallimachos at the [[Battle of Marathon, in the Stoa Poikile (reconstitution).]] A polemarch (, from , polémarchos) was a senior military title in various ancient Greek city states (poleis). The title is derived from the words polemos ('war') and archon ('ruler, leader') and translates as 'warleader' or 'warlord'. The name indicates that the polemarch's original function was to command the army; presumably the office was created to take over this function from the king. The title held a high position in Athenian society, alongside the archon eponymo

Boeotarch (, Boiotarches) was the title of the chief officers of the Boeotian Confederacy, founded in 379 BC after a rebellion freed the cities of Boeotia from Spartan dominance. There were seven Boeotarchs, democratically elected from seven electoral districts throughout Boeotia. As the largest city of the region, Thebes generally elected four of the Boeotarchs, while the other three represented outlying districts. The number of Boeotarchs, however, may not have remained constant at seven. They may have not even represented districts in the same way as the earlier Boeotian League.

Navarch, Navarchus or Nauarchus (, ) is an Anglicisation of a Greek word meaning "archon (leader) of the ships", which in some states became the title of an office equivalent to that of a modern admiral. Also this status was very valuable in Ancient Greece.

Serbian leader

ancient Athenian magistrate, one of nine archons

Thessalian chief magistrate in antiquity

ancient stoa in Athens

noble title of a king

Akameros (, )—his original name was probably Akamir—was the "archon of the Sclavenes of Belzetia" (), an autonomous South Slavic community in Central Greece under Byzantine sovereignty, in the late 8th century.

Byzantine court title

The dēmarchos (; plural δήμαρχοι, dēmarchoi), anglicized as Demarch, is a title historically given to officials related to civic administration. In ancient Athens the title was given to the elected chief magistrate of each of the demes of Attica. In later literature, the term was used as a translation of the Roman office of . In the Byzantine Empire the dēmarchos was the leader of one of the racing factions (then known as "demes") of the Hippodrome of Constantinople. Largely concerned with ceremonial in the early centuries, from the 11th century the title was applied to various administrative

The archontopouloi () were an elite military formation of the Byzantine army during the Komnenian era, in the 11th-12th centuries. They were founded by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos () as part of his military reforms and were recruited among the orphans of Byzantine officers who were killed in battle.