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AnswerThe ancient kingdom of Israel had as its capital, the city of Samaria. When the Assyrians overran Israel in 722 BCE, it became the Assyrian province of Samaria, after the main city. The Assyrians exiled many of the Israelites elsewhere in the empire, where they gradually lost their ethnic identity. To fill the empty land, the Assyrians brought in people from other parts of their empire, many of them Arabs. Gradually the immigrants and the native Israelites who remained behind adopted a single ethnic identity, as Samarians, and at some stage adopted an archaic version of Judaism, with their own separate Temple.

In the New Testament, the Samarians are known as Samaritans.

AnswerThe charity group called the Samaritans are named after Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan who offered assistance to an enemy in distress.
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