SAMARIA, in Ancient Geography, 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 Ginea, in the Campus Magnus, and ending at the toparchy called Acrobatenia (Josephus). Its soil differing in nothing from that of Judea; both equally hilly and campaign, both equally fertile in corn and fruit (ib.). Called the kingdom of Samaria in Ephraim (Bible); comprising the ten tribes, and consequently all the country to the north of Judea and east and west of Jordan.