SAMARIA, (anc. geogr.) one of three larger Cisjordan districts, situated in the middle between Galilee to the north and Judea to the south, beginning
at the village Gineza, in the Campus Magnus, and ending at the toparchy called Acrobatenas, (Josephus). Its soil differing in nothing from that of Judea; both equally hilly and champain, both equally fertile in corn and fruit, (id.) Called the kingdom of Samarie and Ephraim, (Bible); comprising the ten tribes, and consequently all the country to the north of Judea and east and west of Jordan.