Samaria

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Sa·mar·i·a

 (sə-măr′ē-ə, -mâr′-)
An ancient city of central Palestine in the northern part of the present-day West Bank. It was founded in the ninth century bc as the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, also known as Samaria. Conquered by Sargon II in 722 bc, it was destroyed in the second century and rebuilt by Herod the Great. According to tradition, Saint John the Baptist is buried here.
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Samaria

(səˈmɛərɪə)
n
1. (Placename) the region of ancient Palestine that extended from Judaea to Galilee and from the Mediterranean to the River Jordan; the N kingdom of Israel
2. (Placename) the capital of this kingdom; constructed northwest of Shechem in the 9th century bc
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Sa•mar•i•a

(səˈmɛər i ə)

n.
1. a district in ancient Palestine N of Judea: later part of the Roman province of Syria; taken by Jordan 1948; occupied by Israel 1967.
2. the northern kingdom of the ancient Hebrews.
3. the ancient capital of this kingdom.
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Noun1.Samaria - an ancient city in central Palestine founded in the 9th century BC as the capital of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel; the site is in present-day northwestern Jordan
Canaan, Holy Land, Promised Land, Palestine - an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
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From Joppa, Jerusalem, the River Jordan, the Sea of Tiberias, Nazareth, Bethany, Bethlehem, and other points of interest in the Holy Land can be visited, and here those who may have preferred to make the journey from Beirut through the country, passing through Damascus, Galilee, Capernaum, Samaria, and by the River Jordan and Sea of Tiberias, can rejoin the steamer.
Brave Warriors interim coach Bobby Samaria has named Peter Shalulile as captain of the team for their match against Eritrea in Asmara on Wednesday for the 2022 Federation of International Football Federations (FIFA) World Cup preliminary qualifiers.
The Shin Bet reports that in recent weeks a number of Hamas military squads have been exposed in the Judea and Samaria area, operating in the Hamas military arm in the Gaza Strip and planning to carry out attacks against Israeli and Palestinian Authority targets.
Yitzhar is a Jewish community in Samaria. According to the Israel Defense Forces, it is home to a number of particularly rowdy right-wing activists, most of them barely out of their teens and many of them, the army claims, dedicated to picking up fights with Palestinians in neighboring towns and villages.
Had Christie done his homework, he would have known that Adelson's preferred term is Judea and Samaria, the biblical names for the region during the Second Temple period (530 BCE-70 CE).
Why is the Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea and Samaria publishing the Palestinian Authority distorted and tendentious data,which adds more than a million and a quarter people to Palestinian demographics in Judea and Samaria?
For instance, as it is among the Arabs in Judea and Samaria (West Bank), whose fertility rate has declined from 5 births per woman in 2000 to 3.27 births in 2017--and unlike their social standing a generation ago--almost all Arab girls in Israel, Judea and Samaria complete high school, and increasingly enroll in colleges and universities.
He covers the Books of Kings and "The Deuteronomistic History:" form and source criticism, the Books of Kings and History: Solomon to Omri, the Books of Kings and History: the Omride Dynasty and rulers to the fall of Samaria, the Books of Kings and History: from the fall of Samaria to the fall of Jerusalem, and the Books of Kings in hermeneutical perspective.
Chapter two presents the archaeological evidence for the campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III, Shalmaneser V, and Sargon II against the kingdom of Israel, whose capital city Samaria was ultimately captured in 722 B.C.E.
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