= town; constructed by king Omri; capital of northern Israelite kingdom until it was conquered by Assyrians; often used metonymically to refer to the entire northern kingdom
Samaria
Names of Locations
= district around the town of Samaria; ranging from valley of Jezreel in the north to the valley of Aijalon in the south, with the Mediterranean and the Jordan as its respective western and eastern borders; after the conquest of the town of Samaria repopulated with people from other nations