====== Samaria, Sebastia ======

  * [[Places]]

Located in central Israel.  [[Nablus]] is close to it on the southeast, with [[Dothan]] to the northeast.

  * Capital, residence, and burial place of kings of Israel, the Northern Kingdom (1 Kings 16:23-24, 28, 22:37. 2 Kings 6:24-30)
  * Center of [[Baal]] worship (1 Kings 16:29-33)
  * [[Jezebel]] killed many prophets here (1 Kings 18:2, 4)
  * It fell to the Assyrians in 721 BC after a three-year siege.