11 Facts About Samaria

Samaria is the historic and biblical name used for the central region of Palestine, bordered by Judea to the south and Galilee to the north.

Name "Samaria" is derived from the ancient city of Samaria, capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel.

The name Samaria likely began being used for the entire kingdom not long after the town of Samaria had become Israel's capital, but it is first documented after its conquest by Sargon II of Assyria, who turned the kingdom into the province of Samerina.

Samaria was used to describe the northern midsection of the land in the UN Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947.

Samaria's climate is more hospitable than the climate further south.

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Samaria was the capital of Israel until its fall to the Assyrians.

Samaria was a largely autonomous state nominally dependent on the Seleucid Empire until around 113 BCE, when the Jewish Hasmonean ruler John Hyrcanus destroyed the Samaritan temple and devastated Samaria.

In 6 CE, Samaria became part of the Roman province of Iudaea, following the death of King Herod the Great.

Samaria is one of several standard statistical districts utilized by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.

Ancient site of Samaria-Sebaste covers the hillside overlooking the Palestinian village of Sebastia on the eastern slope of the hill.

Harvard excavation of Samaria, which began in 1908, was headed by Egyptologist George Andrew Reisner.