…Sargon has Samaria rebuilt as the capital …
Years: 729BCE - 718BCE
…Sargon has Samaria rebuilt as the capital of the new province of Samerina and settles it with people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:6, 24).
Locations
People
Groups
- Phoenicians
- Tyre, Kingdom of (Phoenicia)
- Philistines
- Hebrews
- Egypt (Ancient), Third Intermediate Period of
- Judah, Kingdom of
- Israel (Northern Kingdom of)
- Assyrian people
- Assyria, (New) Kingdom of (Neo-Assyrian Empire)
- Samaritans
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Assyrian Wars of c. 745-609 BCE
