as-Sāmirah or as-Sāmiriyyah

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As-Sāmirah or as-Sāmiriyyah is the Arabic name for Samaria, the ancient region in the central highlands of historic Palestine that served as the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel.

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as-Sāmirah or as-Sāmiriyyah canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical region
historical region
place name
place name
ArabicNameOf Samaria
Samaria
associatedWith Northern Kingdom of Israel
surface form: ancient Kingdom of Israel

Northern Kingdom of Israel
surface form: ancient Kingdom of Israel
capitalOf Northern Kingdom of Israel
surface form: Kingdom of Israel (Northern Kingdom)

Northern Kingdom of Israel
surface form: Kingdom of Israel (Northern Kingdom)
correspondsTo Samaria
surface form: Samaria (region)

Samaria
surface form: Samaria (region)
etymologicallyRelatedTo Samaria
Samaria
governedBy Assyria
surface form: Assyrian Empire (historically)

Assyria
surface form: Assyrian Empire (historically)

Neo-Babylonian Empire
surface form: Babylonian Empire (historically)

Neo-Babylonian Empire
surface form: Babylonian Empire (historically)

Hellenistic kingdoms (historically)
Hellenistic kingdoms
surface form: Hellenistic kingdoms (historically)

Achaemenid Empire
surface form: Persian Achaemenid Empire (historically)

Achaemenid Empire
surface form: Persian Achaemenid Empire (historically)

Roman Empire
surface form: Roman Empire (historically)

Roman Empire
surface form: Roman Empire (historically)
hasCapital Samaria (Sebaste)
surface form: city of Samaria

Samaria (Sebaste)
surface form: city of Samaria
historicalPeriod Iron Age Levant
Iron Age Levant
locatedIn central highlands of historic Palestine
central highlands of historic Palestine
locatedInPresentDay West Bank
West Bank
mentionedIn Christian New Testament (as Samaria)
New Testament
surface form: Christian New Testament (as Samaria)

Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible
neighboringRegion Galilee
Galilee
Judea
Judea
partOf historic Palestine
historic Palestine
regionType mountainous region
mountainous region
religiousSignificance Biblical geography
Biblical geography
usedInLanguage Arabic
Arabic

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Samaria arabicName as-Sāmirah or as-Sāmiriyyah