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• Samaria — Shomron redirects here. For the regional council, see Shomron Regional Council. For other uses, see Samaria (disambiguation). Map the Northern and Southern Kingdoms. Samaria was the capital of the Kingdom of Israel (in blue). 830s BC …   Wikipedia

• Samaria —    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… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Samaria — /seuh mair ee euh/, n. 1. a district in ancient Palestine: later part of the Roman province of Syria; taken by Jordan 1948; occupied by Israel 1967. 2. the northern kingdom of the ancient Hebrews; Israel. 3. the ancient capital of this kingdom. * …   Universalium

• SAMARIA — (Heb. Shomron, modern Sebaste), city established as the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of Omri c. 884 B.C.E. Prior to the Omride period the site appears to have been the center of an extensive wine and oil production… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Samaria — • A titular see, suffragan of Cæsarea in Palestine Prima. In the sixth year of his reign (about 900 B. C.) Amri, King of Israel, laid the foundations of the city to which he gave the name of Samaria, after the name of Semer the owner of the hill… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Samaria — The capital of the separated northern kingdom from the time of Omri (c.870 BCE, 1 Kgs. 16:24) until 722 BCE when the Assyrians captured it. The city was well fortified and some of its inhabitants were affluent (Amos 6:4–6). The hill country round …   Dictionary of the Bible

• Samaria, Indiana — Infobox Settlement official name = Samaria settlement type = Town motto = imagesize = image caption = mapsize = map caption = mapsize1 = map caption1 = image dot dot mapsize = dot map caption = dot x = dot y = pushpin pushpin label position =… …   Wikipedia

• Samaria — noun 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 • Instance Hypernyms: ↑city, ↑metropolis, ↑urban center • Part… …   Useful english dictionary

• CITY — In biblical Hebrew, as in other Semitic languages, a single word, ʿir (עִיר, rendered in this article as city ), is used usually to designate any permanent settlement. In itself it gives no indication of the size of the settlement, or of the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• City of David National Park — The old city walls near the Jaffa Gate. City of David National Park (גן לאומי סובב חומות ירושלים) is an Israeli national park located near the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The national park was designed originally to surround the old city… …   Wikipedia

• City council (Israel) — Headquarters of the Jerusalem Municipality Israel …   Wikipedia