Byzantine titles and offices

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.

government of the Byzantine Empire

noble title in the later Roman empire

A phylarch (, ) is a Greek title meaning "ruler of a tribe", from phyle, "tribe" + archein "to rule".

Toparchēs (, "place-ruler"), anglicized as toparch, is a Greek term for a governor or ruler of a district and was later applied to the territory where the toparch exercised his authority. In Byzantine times, the term came to be applied to independent or semi-independent rulers in the periphery of the Byzantine world.

The Manglabites or Manglavites (, manglabitai; sing. μαγ[γ]λαβίτης, manglabitēs) were a corps of bodyguards in the Byzantine Empire.

thumb|Seal of Niketas, and of the Cibyrrhaeots (10th/11th century) ' (), Latinized as ', was a mid-ranking Byzantine court dignity used in the 7th–11th centuries.

late Imperial Roman official rank