Without the protection of a Patriarchate, many of those evicted would have converted to other Churches or religions. Some certainly became Acephali.
==604 '''Byzantine Emperor Phocas Evicts Converts Jews'''==In 604 Byzantine Emperor Phocas forces Romaniotes as far as the Roman province of Tachkastan to convert or be evicted from the Roman Empire.
Many Jews flee to Dacia and allied themselves to Persia.