Samaria

Samaria (kwa Kiebrania שומרון, Shomron; kwa Kiarabu السامرة, as-Sāmirah) ni eneo la milimamilima katikati ya nchi inayoitwa Israeli au Palestina. Jina "Samaria" linatokana na lile la mji mkuu wa Ufalme wa Israeli.Harvard Expedition to Samaria, 1908–1910, Harvard University Kadiri ya 1Fal 16:24, jina la mji huo lilitokana na lile la Shemer, aliyemuuzia Omri, mfalme wa Israeli eneo kwa ajili ya kuuanzisha kama makao makuu (884 KK hivi) badala ya Tirza.

Historia
Kadiri ya Biblia, Waisraeli waliteka eneo hilo la Kanaani na kulikabidhi kwa kabila la Yosefu. 

Eneo lilitekwa na Waashuru mwaka 722 KK hivi, nao wakahamisha wakazi wake wengi hadi Mesopotamia. Badala yao waliletwa wengine kutoka huko. Ndiyo sababu wakazi wa eneo hilo wakaja kuwa wa mchanganyiko wakapewa jina jipya: "Wasamaria".

Baadaye lilitawaliwa na mataifa mbalimbali, kama vile Babuloni, Uajemi, Ugiriki wa kale, Dola la Roma, Bizanti, Waarabu, Wazungu wa vita vya msalaba, Waturuki na hatimaye Waingereza.Harvard Expedition to Samaria, 1908–1910, Harvard University

 Tanbihi

Marejeo

Tappy, R. E. (2206). “The Provenance of the Unpublished Ivories from Samaria,” Pp. 637–56 in “I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times” (Ps 78:2b): Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, A. M. Maeir and P. de Miroschedji, eds. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
Tappy, R. E. (2007). “The Final Years of Israelite Samaria: Toward a Dialogue between Texts and Archaeology,” Pp. 258–79 in Up to the Gates of Ekron: Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of Seymour Gitin, S. White Crawford, A. Ben-Tor, J. P. Dessel, W. G. Dever, A. Mazar, and J. Aviram, eds. Jerusalem: The W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and the Israel Exploration Society.

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 Entry for Samaria in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
 Shomron National Park (Sebastia) at Israel Nature and Parks Authority site
 Pictures of the ruins of Shomron 

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