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The Roman colonnade in Samaria from roughly 30 BCE.
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Samaria (or the Shomron) refers to the mountainous northern part of the Jordan River's west bank. The Romans called the city Sebastos after the Emperor Augustus who gave it to Herod the Great.
The territory of Samaria became a British Mandate of Palestine after World War I, when the League of Nations mandated that the Ottoman Empire entrust it to be administered by the United Kingdom. As as result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the territory fell under the control of Jordan.
During the 1967 Six-Day War, Samaria was taken by Israeli forces. In 1988 Jordan withdrew its claim to the West Bank, including Samaria, confirmed by the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty of 1993. Jordan recognizes the Palestinian Authority as sovereign there, and responsibility was transferred to the Palestinians in the 1994 Oslo accords.
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