Samareia

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Samareia is the ancient Greek name for Samaria, a historically significant region and city in the central highlands of ancient Israel and the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel.

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Label Occurrences
Samareia canonical 2

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek exonym
ancient city
historical region
associatedWith Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel
surface form: Assyrian conquest of Israel

Israelite monarchy
capitalOf Northern Kingdom of Israel
surface form: Kingdom of Israel (northern kingdom)
conqueredBy Assyria
surface form: Neo-Assyrian Empire
conquestDateApprox 8th century BCE
correspondsTo Samaria
etymologicallyRelatedTo Shomron
GreekNameOf Samaria
hasBiblicalName Samaria
hasRole capital city
historicalFunction administrative center of surrounding region
political center of northern Kingdom of Israel
label Samareia self-link
languageOfName Ancient Greek
locatedIn Ancient Israel
surface form: ancient Israel

central highlands of ancient Israel
mentionedIn Septuagint
writings of Josephus
modernCountry Israel
surface form: State of Israel
modernTerritorialOverlap West Bank
nameInLanguage Greek
partOf Northern Kingdom of Israel
surface form: Kingdom of Israel (northern kingdom)
regionType hill country
religiousSignificance important in ancient Israelite history
transliterationOf Σαμάρεια
usedBy ancient Greek authors
usedInPeriod Classical antiquity

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Samaria greekName Samareia
Samareia label Samareia self-link