Samaria (kwa Kiebrania שומרון, Shomron; kwa Kiarabu السامرة, as-Sāmirah), ni eneo la milimamilima katikati ya nchi inayoitwa Israeli au Palestina. Jina "Samaria" linatokana na lile la mji mkuu wa Ufalme wa Israeli.^[1]

Kadiri ya 1Fal 16:24, jina la mji huo lilitokana na lile la Shemer, aliyemuuzia mfalme Omri eneo kwa ajili ya kuuanzisha kama makao makuu (884 KK hivi) badala ya Tirza.

Historia

Kadiri ya Biblia, Waisraeli waliteka eneo hilo la Kanaani na kulikabidhi kwa kabila la Yosefu.

Eneo lilitekwa na Waashuru mwaka 722 KK hivi, nao wakahamisha wakazi wake wengi hadi Mesopotamia. Badala yao waliletwa wengine kutoka huko. Ndiyo sababu wakazi wa eneo hilo wakaja kuwa wa mchanganyiko wakapewa jina jipya: "Wasamaria".

Baadaye lilitawaliwa na mataifa mbalimbali, kama vile Babuloni, Uajemi, Ugiriki wa kale, Dola la Roma, Bizanti, Waarabu, Wazungu wa vita vya msalaba, Waturuki na hatimaye Waingereza.^[2]

Tanbihi

Marejeo

• Rainey, A. F. (November 1988). "Toward a Precise Date for the Samaria Ostraca". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 272 (272): 69–74. JSTOR 1356786. doi:10.2307/1356786.  Cite uses deprecated parameter |month= (help)
• Stager, L. E. (February–May 1990). "Shemer's Estate". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 277/278 (277): 93–107. JSTOR 1357375. doi:10.2307/1357375.  Cite uses deprecated parameter |month= (help)
• Becking, B. (1992). The Fall of Samaria: An Historical and Archaeological Study. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-09633-7. 
• Franklin, N. (2003). "The Tombs of the Kings of Israel". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 119 (1): 1–11. 
• Franklin, N. (2004). "Samaria: from the Bedrock to the Omride Palace". Levant 36: 189–202. 
• Tappy, R. E. (2206). “The Provenance of the Unpublished Ivories from Samaria,” Pp. 637–56 in “I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times” (Ps 78:2b): Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, A. M. Maeir and P. de Miroschedji, eds. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
• Tappy, R. E. (2007). “The Final Years of Israelite Samaria: Toward a Dialogue between Texts and Archaeology,” Pp. 258–79 in Up to the Gates of Ekron: Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of Seymour Gitin, S. White Crawford, A. Ben-Tor, J. P. Dessel, W. G. Dever, A. Mazar, and J. Aviram, eds. Jerusalem: The W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and the Israel Exploration Society.

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Samaria

• Entry for Samaria in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• Shomron National Park (Sebastia) at Israel Nature and Parks Authority site
• Pictures of the ruins of Shomron
•  S. Vailhé (1913). "Samaria". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Coordinates: 32°08′35″N 35°15′38″E / 32.14306°N 35.26062°E / 32.14306; 35.26062