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After Judea was depopulated of Jews following the Jewish-Roman Wars, the vaccuum for the following few centuries was filled by Christians and Samaritans. Apparently, the Samaritans executed a number of revolts against the Eastern Roman Empire between the late 5th and late 6th centuries. One of their more well-known leaders was Julian Ben Sabar, who operated between the years 529 and 531 AD. After these revolts were supressed, Syria's Samaritan population declined, and, nowadays, only less than a thousand people identify as Samaritan.
So, my question is... what if the Samaritans had succeeded in estabilishing an independent kingdom at the (traditionally periodized) dawn of the Middle Ages?
The Samaritans would need outside support to repel following attempts by Byzantium to reconquer Palestine. Perhaps they could be supported by Sassanid Persia?
With land connections to Egypt severed by the Samaritans, could the Miaphysites of Egypt end up rebelling soon?
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