Samaria
Samaria, the Hellenized form of the Hebrew name Shomron, is used as a historical and biblical name for the central region of the Land of Israel. It is bordered by Judea to the south and Galilee to the north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Region
- Description: historical region in the Levant
- Also known as: “As Sāmirah”, “Samareia”, and “Shōmrōn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Park HaTznirim and Roman Theatre.
Roman Theatre
Archaeological site
Roman Theatre is an archaeological site, which is situated 4 km northeast of Samaria.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deir Sharaf and Shavei Shomron.
Deir Sharaf
Village
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Deir Sharaf is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located northwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,949 inhabitants in 2017.
Shavei Shomron
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shavei Shomron is an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank. Built on lands confiscated from the neighboring Palestinian villages of An-Naqura and Deir Sharaf, it is located to the west of Nablus, on the road to Tulkarm.
Qusin
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Qusin is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 8 kilometers West of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,251 inhabitants in 2017.
Samaria
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Samaria” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “السامرة”
- Arabic: “سامرة”
- Armenian: “Սամարիա”
- Basque: “Samaria”
- Basque: “Samariar”
- Belarusian: “Самарыя”
- Bengali: “শমরিয়া”
- Bulgarian: “Самария”
- Catalan: “Samaria”
- Catalan: “Samària”
- Chinese: “撒瑪利亞”
- Chinese: “撒瑪黎雅”
- Chinese: “撒馬利亞”
- Chinese: “撒马利亚”
- Czech: “Samařsko”
- Danish: “Samaria”
- Dutch: “Samaria”
- Esperanto: “Samario (geografio)”
- Esperanto: “Samario”
- Esperanto: “Samarujo”
- Faroese: “Samária”
- Finnish: “Samaria”
- French: “Samarie”
- French: “Samaritide”
- Galician: “Samaria”
- German: “Samaria”
- German: “Samarien”
- German: “Schomron”
- Greek: “Σαμάρεια”
- Greek: “Σαμάρια”
- Hebrew: “הר שומרון”
- Hebrew: “הרי שומרון”
- Hebrew: “השומרון”
- Hebrew: “שומרון”
- Hungarian: “Szamária”
- Indonesian: “Samaria”
- Indonesian: “Taman Nasional Samaria”
- Irish: “An tSamáir”
- Italian: “Samaria”
- Japanese: “サマリア”
- Japanese: “サマリヤ”
- Korean: “사마리아”
- Latin: “Samaria”
- Latvian: “Samārija”
- Lithuanian: “Samarija”
- Macedonian: “Самарија”
- Malagasy: “Samaria”
- Marathi: “समेरिया”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samaria (region)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samaria”
- Norwegian: “Samaria”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Samària”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܝܬ ܫܡܪܝܐ”
- Persian: “سامریه”
- Polish: “Samaria”
- Portuguese: “Samaria”
- Portuguese: “Shomrom”
- Romanian: “Samaria”
- Russian: “Самария, Западный берег Иордана”
- Russian: “Самария”
- Russian: “Шомрон”
- Samoan: “Samaria”
- Serbian: “Samarija”
- Serbian: “Самарија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Samarija”
- Shona: “Samaria”
- Slovenian: “Samarija”
- Spanish: “Samaria”
- Swahili: “Samaria”
- Swedish: “Samaria”
- Swedish: “Samarien”
- Swiss German: “Samarie”
- Tagalog: “Samaria”
- Tamil: “சமாரியா”
- Tosk Albanian: “Samarien”
- Turkish: “Samariye”
- Turkish: “Samarya”
- Turkish: “Samiriye”
- Ukrainian: “Самарія (край)”
- Ukrainian: “Самарія”
- Urdu: “سامرہ”
- Uzbek: “Samariya”
- Venetian: “Samària”
- Waray (Philippines): “Samaria (rehiyon)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Samaria”
- Yiddish: “שומרון (שטאט)”
- Yiddish: “שומרון”
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