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Samaria
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A titular see, suffragan of Cæsarea in Palestine Prima. In the sixth year of his reign (about 900 B.C.) Amri, King of Israel, laid the foundations of the city to which he gave the name of Samaria, “after the name of Semer the owner of the hill” (2 Samuel 16:24). This detached hill was 1454 feet above sea-level, and more than 328 feet above the surrounding hills. His son, Achab, married to Jezabel, a
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