SAMARIA, in Ancient Geography, one of the three larger Cisjordan districts, situated in the middle between Galilee to the north and Judæa to the south, beginning at the village Ginea, in the Campus Magnus, and ending at the toparchy called Acrobatenæ. Its soil differs in nothing from that of Judæa, both being equally hilly and champaign, and both equally fertile in corn and fruit. It is called the kingdom of Samaria in Ephraim, comprehending the ten tribes, and consequently all the country to the north of Judæa and east and west of Jordan.