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Samaria, Samaria - Ancient occupation, Samaria - Capital of the Kingdom of Israel, Samaria - Geographical location, Samaria - New Testament reference, Samaria - Political control, Samaria - Samaria today, Samaria - Samaritans, Lost Ten Tribes - specifically relating to the northern Kingdom of Israel with its capital at <strong>Samaria</strong> and the wars that took place with the Kingdom of Judah before the fall of the Kingdom of Judah and its occupants becoming lost to the pages of history. However, many theories abound as to what became of the "lost ten tribes" and the advocates do not necessarily agree with each other., The name of samarium is not related to Samaria., Samaritan - a similar article concentrating more on the ethnic and religious group., The Good Samaritan
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ARTICLES RELATED TO Samaria - Political control | | | |  Samaria - Political control: Encyclopedia II - Samaria - Political controlSamaria was taken by Israeli forces from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War. Jordan subsequently withdrew its claim to the West Bank, including Samaria, in 1988, which was later confirmed by the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty of 1993. Jordan instead recognizes the Palestinian Authority as sovereign in the territory. In the 1994 Oslo accords, responsibility for the administration over some of the territory of Samaria ...
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| | | | Samaria - Political control: Encyclopedia II - Samaria - Capital of the Kingdom of Israel Shomron (Samaria) is literally a watch-mountain or a watch-tower. In the heart of the mountains of Israel, a few miles north-west of Shechem, stands the "hill of Shomeron," a solitary mountain, a great "mamelon". It is an oblong hill, with steep but not inaccessible sides, and a long flat top.
Omri, the king of Israel, purchased this hill from Shemer its owner for two talents of silver, and built on its broad summit the city to which he gave the name of "Shomeron", i.e., Samaria, as the new capital of his kingdom instead of Tirzah (1 Kings 16:24). As such it possessed many advantage ...
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| | | | Samaria - Political control: Encyclopedia II - Samaria - Samaritans Main article: Samaritan.
Ethnically, the Samaritans are the inhabitants of Samaria after the beginning of the Jewish Babylonian Exile. 2 Kings 17 and Josephus (Ant 9.277–91) When Assyria overran the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 722 B.C.E, much of the population was departed, and other nationalities were resettled in Israel. Sargon claimed in Assyrian annals that he carried away 27,290 inhabitants from Samaria, the capital of Northern Israel. The new inhabitants worshipped their own gods, but when the then-sparsely populated ...
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| | | | Samaria - Political control: Encyclopedia II - Samaria - Samaria today It is now represented by the hamlet of Sebustieh, containing about three hundred inhabitants. The ruins of the ancient town are all scattered over the hill. The shafts of about 100 of what must have been grand Corinthian columns are still standing, and attract much attention, although nothing definite is known regarding them. (compare Micah 1:6.)
Samaria and Jerusalem, the capitals of the two kingdo ...
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