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Samaria (green) within Palestine, under Persian rule
Hills of Samaria, 2011
Site of Dothan, where according to the Book of Genesis, Joseph was sold by his brethren
Samaria (/s?.'m?r.i?.?/), or the Shomron (Hebrew: ??????????, Standard Šomron Tiberian Šom?rôn?; Arabic: ????????, as-Samirah – also known as ???? ?????, Jibal Nablus?) is a mountainous region in the Southern Levant, based on the borders of the biblical Northern Kingdom of Israel. The name "Samaria" derives from the ancient city Samaria, the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. In modern usage it is roughly corresponding to the northern West Bank.In the modern times, the term Samaria was revived by the British, who coined this to an official provincial term. During the Jordanian occupation, the area changed its name to the West Bank. During the 1967 Six-Day War, Samaria was captured by Israel from Jordan together with the rest of West Bank of Jordan, which had previously captured it in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. With Israeli occupation, the name Samaria was restored, to become part of an administrative Judea and Samaria area. Jordan ceded its claim to the area to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in November 1988. In 1994, control of Areas 'A' (full civil and security control by the Palestinian Authority) and 'B' (Palestinian civil control and joint Israeli-Palestinian security control) were transferred by Israel to the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian Authority didn't recognize the term Samaria within its domain. In 2013, with the official transition from the Palestinian Authority to the State of Palestine, large parts of Samaria came to be internationally recognized under State of Palestine control.
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