Samaria (Hebrew: שֹׁמְרוֹן Šōmrōn; Akkadian: 𒊓𒈨𒊑𒈾 Samerina; Greek: Σαμάρεια Samareia; Arabic: السامرة as-Sāmira) was the capital city of the Kingdom...

Ramallah. The name "Samaria" is derived from the ancient city of Samaria, capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel. The name Samaria likely began being...

political center was the city of Samaria. The Hebrew Bible depicts the Kingdom of Israel, also known as the Kingdom of Samaria, as one of two successor...

territory designated by the biblical names of Judea and Samaria. Both names are tied to the ancient Israelite kingdoms: the former corresponds to part of...

archaeological site is 180 dunams (44 acres) and is located in the hills of Samaria, northeast of Nablus, in what is currently known as the West Bank. The...

the West Bank. In the 9th century BCE, it was known as Samaria, and served as the capital city of the northern Kingdom of Israel until it was destroyed...

The Samariá Gorge (Greek: Φαράγγι Σαμαριάς or just Φάραγγας) is a National Park of Greece since 1962 on the island of Crete – a major tourist attraction...

שִׁלֹה, שִׁלוֹ ,שִׁילֹה, שִׁילוֹ, romanized: Šīlō) was an ancient city and sanctuary in Samaria. According to the Hebrew Bible, Shiloh was one of the main...

romanized: ʾasdūd) or Azotus (Koinē Greek: Ἄζωτος, romanized: azōtos) was an ancient Levantine metropolis situated at Tel Ashdod, 'Mound of Ashdod', an archaeological...

samaria or Samaria in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Samaria may refer to: Samaria, historical province in the region of Palestine Samaria (ancient...

see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle...

the city began to dwindle and many quarrymen were left without employment. Peleg-Barkat distincts between the rock-cut tombs of western Samaria and those...

rebelled in 725 BCE. Shalmaneser besieged the capital, Samaria, but died shortly before the fall of the city. His brother Sargon II (722–705 BCE) completed the...

Make Me A Sanctuary: Synagogues from Ancient Times to the Present Day, Ariel: The College of Judaea and Samaria. 2004. pp 25-29 Onn, A., and Weksler-Bdolah...

Shalmaneser's reign. At some point in the 720s, the Assyrians captured Samaria (ancient city) after a siege lasting several years and ended the Kingdom of Israel...

Cadmus and Phoenix, as well as Carthage's founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to...

the Hebrews and Israelites of the ancient Near East. They are indigenous to Samaria, a historical region of ancient Israel and Judah that comprises the...

capture of its capital city, which was also known as Samaria. The siege of the city of Samaria has been tentatively dated to 725 or 724 BC, and its resolution...

ten years after the initial deportations, the ruling city of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Samaria, was finally taken by Sargon II after a three-year...

pharaoh Shoshenq I Siege of Gath (city) (ca. 830 BC) (Bible Reference: II Kings 12:17/18) Siege of Samaria (ancient city) (9th century BC) (Bible Reference:...

country later split into two kingdoms: Israel, containing the cities of Shechem and Samaria in the north, and Judah (containing Jerusalem and the Jewish...

found in an Israelite sanctuary east of Tell Dothan, in the mountains of Samaria, dated to around the 11th century, which may be related to the episode...

marked the bounds of Judea to its north. "Ancient History Sourcebook: Josephus (37 – after 93 CE): Galilee, Samaria, and Judea in the First Century CE". Fordham...

population: 40,000. (excludes Area A and B). Largest city: Modi'in Illit The name Judea and Samaria for this geographical area is based on terminology from...

exit to the Samaria Gorge. The whole area is known as Sfakia. The village got its name from the Greek word for "bath," for the many ancient baths found...

Latin: Ascalon; Arabic: عَسْقَلَان, romanized: ʿAsqalān) was an ancient Near East port city on the Mediterranean coast of the southern Levant that played...

built by Achaemenid kings. Samaria Tmutarakan Troy – Bronze Age anatolian city made famous by Homer's Iliad. Ur - Sumerian city. Akkad Arimathea Balanjar...

city-states.[citation needed] The entire region (including all Phoenician/Canaanite and Aramean states, together with Israel, Philistia, and Samaria)...

known from contemporary sources, he remains known for the conquest of Samaria and the fall of the Kingdom of Israel, though the conclusion of that campaign...

century BCE. The conflict, referring to the independence of the Kingdom of Samaria and the subsequent civil war during Jeroboam's rule, is said to have begun...