Samaria.

Antiq. xviii, 5: Josephus relates, that John was sent bound to the castle of Mecheron, and there beheaded; but ecclesiastical history relates that he was buried in Sebastia, a town of Palestine, which was formerly called Samaria.

Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

According to Sargon II, 27,290 Israelites were deported from the country, and Israel was made an Assyrian province called Samaria.

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Samaritans, it must be kept in mind that a certain city and the district or province in which it was situated were both known as Samaria.

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

753 B.C. From it colonists were planted by Assyria in Samaria.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Well, this could be said; still we were not nothing: we could not be as if we never had been a Church; we were "Samaria."

Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

Eccles., 3, 3] that he was buried in Sebaste, a city of Palestine, once called Samaria.

Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark 1225?-1274 1842

But the third was the most powerful of them all, and was willing to avenge the defeat his forefather had received; so he made an expedition against the Jews, and laid waste the city which is now called Samaria. "

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709