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 ancient Kingdom of Israel
ancient Kingdom of Israel
capitalOf Kingdom of Israel (Northern Kingdom)
Kingdom of Israel (Northern Kingdom)
correspondsTo Samaria (region)
linked to: Samaria

Samaria (region)
linked to: Samaria
etymologicallyRelatedTo Samaria
Samaria
governedBy Assyrian Empire (historically)
linked to: Assyria

Assyrian Empire (historically)
linked to: Assyria

Babylonian Empire (historically)
Babylonian Empire (historically)
Hellenistic kingdoms (historically)
Hellenistic kingdoms (historically)
Persian Achaemenid Empire (historically)
linked to: Achaemenid Empire

Persian Achaemenid Empire (historically)
linked to: Achaemenid Empire

Roman Empire (historically)
linked to: Roman Empire

Roman Empire (historically)
linked to: Roman Empire
hasCapital city of Samaria
linked to: Samaria (Sebaste)

city of Samaria
linked to: Samaria (Sebaste)
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)
Christian New Testament (as Samaria)
linked to: New Testament

Hebrew Bible
linked to: Tanakh

Hebrew Bible
linked to: Tanakh
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