What years were the Byzantine era? Anybody know?
Never mind, I found it. Sorry.
Byzantine is a term applied to Romans/Greeks after they turned from paganism to the Christianity. So it starts with the conversion of emperor Constantine in IV century, them with the Germanic invasions in the West in V, VI, VII, VIII centuries the Christian Rome got reduced to the Greek speaking West. Palestine was under Christian rule from IV century to VII th century. It was in that time that the Jerusalem was reestablished and rebuilt because of the Christian pilgrims.
In VII century Muslims overrun Palestine and later North Africa and Syria so Byzantine Empire got reduced to Greece, Asia Minor (todays Turkey), Balkans and southern Italy. The last remaining parts of Byzantine empire (Constantinople and parts of Peloponnesus were destroyed by Muslims in XV century