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