Question: Who controlled the holy land where the brand of Christianity practiced in the country where Vasilopita is lasted up until the 7th century?

<P0-S0> Vasilopita (, "Vasilópita", lit. <P0-S1> It is associated with Saint Basil's day, January 1, in most of Greece, but in some regions, the traditions surrounding a cake with a hidden coin are attached to Epiphany or to Christmas. <P0-S2> It is made of a variety of dough, depending on regional and family tradition, including tsoureki. <P0-S3> In some families, instead of dough, it is made from a custard base called galatopita (literally milk-pita). <P0-S4> '(St.) Basil-pie' or 'king pie', see below) is a New Year's Day bread or cake in Greece and many other areas in eastern Europe and the Balkans which contains a hidden coin or trinket which gives good luck to the receiver, like the Western European king cake. <P0-S5> The pie is also known as Chronópita (Χρονόπιτα  χρόνος: "chrónos ⇨ time/year" + πίτα: "píta ⇨ pie"), meaning New Year's Pie. <SEP> <P1-S0> Jerusalem reached a peak in size and population at the end of the Second Temple Period: The city covered two square kilometers (0.8 sq mi.) <P1-S1> In the five centuries following the Bar Kokhba revolt in the 2nd century, the city remained under Roman then Byzantine rule. <P1-S2> and had a population of 200,000. <P1-S3> During the 4th century, the Roman Emperor Constantine I constructed Christian sites in Jerusalem such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. <SEP> <P2-S0> from the early stages of christianity, belief in the virginity of mary and the virgin conception of jesus, as stated in the gospels, holy and supernatural, was used by detractors, both political and religious, as a topic for discussions, debates and writings, specifically aimed to challenge the divinity of jesus and thus christians and christianity alike. <P2-S1> in the 2nd century, as part of the earliest anti-christian polemics, celsus suggested that jesus was the illegitimate son of a roman soldier named panthera. <P2-S2> the views of celsus drew responses from origen, the church father in alexandria, egypt, who considered it a fabricated story. <P2-S3> how far celsus sourced his view from jewish sources remains a subject of discussion. <SEP> <P3-S0> the byzantines were able to regain control of the country after a brief sasanian persian invasion early in the 7th century amidst the byzantine–sasanian war of 602–628 during which they established a new short-lived province for ten years known as sasanian egypt, until 639–42, when egypt was invaded and conquered by the islamic empire by the muslim arabs. <P3-S1> when they defeated the byzantine armies in egypt, the arabs brought sunni islam to the country. <P3-S2> early in this period, egyptians began to blend their new faith with indigenous beliefs and practices, leading to various sufi orders that have flourished to this day. <P3-S3> these earlier rites had survived the period of coptic christianity. <SEP> <P4-S0> Early Christians gathered in small private homes, known as house churches, but a city's whole Christian community would also be called a church -- the Greek noun ἐκκλησία literally means assembly, gathering, or congregation but is translated as church in most English translations of the New Testament. <P4-S1> The Apostolic sees claim to have been founded by one or more of the apostles of Jesus, who are said to have dispersed from Jerusalem sometime after the crucifixion of Jesus, c. 26 -- 36, perhaps following the Great Commission.