r/byzantium is a subreddit with 60k members. The community frequently discusses byzantine, byzantine empire, history, emperor, and constantinople, and they frequently recommend/review literature and books, and the most common flair used is arts, culture, and society, military, infrastructure/architecture , byzantine neighbours, and politics/goverment .
This sub is for discussion about the Roman empire in the east, often called the Byzantine Empire from the period of c. 330 - 1500 AD.
Popular Topics in r/byzantium
#1
Byzantine
191 posts
#2
Byzantine Empire
74 posts
#3
History
72 posts
#4
Emperor
69 posts
#5
Constantinople
51 posts
#6
Roman
38 posts
#7
Byzantium
26 posts
#8
Roman Empire
26 posts
#9
Empire
21 posts
#10
Constantine
19 posts
Products Discussed in r/byzantium
Literature
3 reviews
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Roger Crowley
5.0★ from 1 review
#2
Steven Runciman
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
Marios Philippides and Walter K. Hanak
5.0★ from 1 review
Books
1 review
#1
John Julius Norwich
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/byzantium
#1
Arts, culture, and society
: "Reconstructed imperial regalia in the renovated Palace of the Despots in Mystras"
55 posts
#2
Military
: "What if a tenth century byzantine skoutatos had a boom stick?"
29 posts
#3
Infrastructure/architecture
: "Theodosian Walls, 1453 and 2024"
25 posts
#4
Byzantine neighbours
: "Why did the Abbasids never prepare a siege to Constantinople like the Umayyads did?"
17 posts
#5
Politics/Goverment
: "How important/prestigious was Byzantine Africa?"
16 posts
#6
Maps and geography
: "The More I look into the byzantine empire the More I realize that those borders are the most "realistic" biased on byzantine population, cities and bored changes trough the years"
12 posts
#7
Academia and literature
: "Did the Romans, let's say during the reign of Basil II, remember how big their empire was? That it once stretched from Britain to Iraq, or had they forgotten it?"
11 posts
#8
Popular media
: "The Last Roman"
9 posts
#9
Alternate history
: ""East and West, United Once Again!" - German Propaganda Celebrating Rhomania (Byzantine Empire) Joining the Central Powers, 1910"
9 posts
#10
Economy
: "The oldest photo of the city then still called Constantinople :O"
5 posts
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Last updated: June 15, 2026