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You mean people who ruled over Jerusalem? Because there is a separate kingdom called the Kings of Jerusalem that lasted about 200 years during the time of the Crusades.

Well, after the destruction of Bayit Sheni it remained in the hands of the Romans for a while, after which it was ruled by Byzantium (really an extension of the Romans but it’s not always considered the same). Then the Muslims conquered it in the 600s and the Rashidun, Ummayad, Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates ruled over it. In 1099 Godfrey of Bouillon and his Crusaders of the First Crusade captured it and established the aforementioned Kingdom of Jerusalem. In 1187, Saladin captured it, and it pretty much stayed in Muslim control until the British captured it in 1917 except for a brief Mongol capture. In that time were the Mamluks, until the 16th century, and then the Ottomans. After the British part was controlled by the Jews in Israel and part by Jordan until 1967 when it was united.

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