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Samaria and Gorge
The island has a number of gorges such as the famous gorge of Samaria, Imbros gorge, Kourtaliotiko gorge, Ha gorge, Platania gorge, the Gorge of the Dead ( at Kato Zakros, Sitia ) and Richtis Gorge and waterfall at Exo Mouliana in Sitia.
Mammals of Crete include the vulnerable Kri-kri, Capra Aegagrus Creticus that can be seen in the national park of the Samaria Gorge and on Thodorou, Dia and Agioi Pantes, ( islets off the north coast ), the Cretan wildcat and the Cretan spiny mouse.
* Samaria Gorge, Crete, Greece
Samaria Gorge
Samaria Gorge
* Photos and Information about Samaria Gorge
The Sfakía region is crossed by many gorges, among which is the famous Samaria Gorge.
Close-up of adult, Samaria Gorge National Park
Adult female in natural habitat, Samaria Gorge National Park
It was common throughout the Aegean but their last stronghold is among the peaks of the 8, 000 ft ( 2, 400 m ) White Mountains of Western Crete — particularly on a series of almost vertical 3, 000 ft ( 900 m ) cliffs called ' the Untrodden '— at the head of the Samaria Gorge.
Its status was one of the reasons for the Samaria Gorge becoming a national park in 1962.
It has two small harbours, where the ferry boats from Agia Roumeli dock, which in the summer bring the hikers from the Samaria Gorge to take buses back to the northern coast.
The natural park of Samaria Gorge, a major tourist attraction and a refuge for the rare Cretan wild goat or kri kri, is in the South of the regional unit.

Samaria and is
A treaty was made whereby Ben-hadad restored the cities which his father had taken from Ahab's father ( that is, Omri, but see 15: 20, 2 Kings 13: 25 ), and trading facilities between Damascus and Samaria were granted.
This structure can be also seen as a series of concentric circles, where the gospel begins in the center, Jerusalem, and is expanding ever outward to Judea & Samaria, Syria, Asia Minor, Europe, and eventually to Rome.
" The officials of Samaria write to king Artaxerxes warning him that Jerusalem is being rebuilt, and the king orders the work to stop.
Tattenai, satrap over both Judah and Samaria, writes to Darius warning him that Jerusalem is being rebuilt and advising that the archives be searched to discover the decree of Cyrus.
According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.
* Warnings to the cities of Judah ( 1: 8 – 16 ): Samaria has fallen, Judah is next.
This in turn forms the background to verses 1: 8-16, in which Micah warns the towns of the coming disaster ( Lachish is singled out for special mention, accused of the corrupt practices of both Samaria and Jerusalem ).
It is reported in the Bible during the siege of Samaria ( 2 Kings 6: 25 – 30 ).
Popular tourist attractions include the archaeological sites of the Minoan civilisation, the Venetian old city and port of Chania, the Venetian castle at Rethymno, the gorge of Samaria, the islands of Chrysi, Elafonisi, Gramvousa, and Spinalonga and the Palm Beach of Vai, which is the largest natural palm forest in Europe.
It is not certain if he has also experienced the destruction of Samaria, which is foreseen in.
The first is when Jesus makes wine out of water, He went up to the Paschal feast-day, after which He withdraws and is found in Samaria.
The burial-place of John the Baptist was at Sebaste in Samaria, and mention is made of his relics being honored there around the middle of the 4th century.
According to an old tradition, Obadiah is buried in Samaria.
Israel would later become identified in sources as the " House of Omri " ( Bit-Humria ), with the term " Israel " being used less and less as history progressed ( the other defining term for " Israel " is " Samaria ", beginning in the reign of Joash ).
In the aftermath of the war, Hadrian consolidated the older political units of Judaea, Galilee and Samaria into the new province of Syria Palaestina, which is commonly interpreted as an attempt to complete the disassociation with Judaea
The inscription of Sargon II records the deportation of a relatively small proportion of the Israelites from Samaria ( 27, 290, according to the annals ), so it is quite possible that a sizable population remained that could identify themselves as Israelites, the term that the Samaritans prefer for themselves.
Yitzakh Magen argues that the version of Chronicles is perhaps closer to the historical truth, and that the Assyrian settlement was unsuccessful, a notable population remained in Samaria, part of which, following the conquest of Judah, fled south and settled there as refugees.
Samaria (), or the Shomron (, ; ;, or, – also known as, ) is a mountainous region in the northern part of the geographical area to the west of the Jordan River, roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank.
The name Samaria is of biblical origin, derived from the individual clan Shemer, from whom Omri purchased the site.
To the north, Samaria is bounded by the Jezreel Valley ; to the east by the Jordan Rift Valley ; to the west by the Carmel Ridge ( in the north ) and the Sharon plain ( in the west ); to the south by the Jerusalem mountains.
Samaria is one of several standard statistical districts utilized by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.

Samaria and World
The modern history of Samaria begins when the territory of Samaria, formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, was entrusted to the United Kingdom to administer in the aftermath of World War I as a British Mandate of Palestine, by the League of Nations.

Samaria and protected
The Kri-kri ( the Cretan ibex ) lives in protected natural parks at the gorge of Samaria and the island of Agios Theodoros.
On his return march, he once again encountered the Confederate cavalry at Samaria ( St. Mary's ) Church on June 24, where his men suffered significant casualties, but successfully protected the Union supply wagons they were escorting.

Samaria and for
* Judgement against Samaria ( 1: 2 – 7 ): Drawing upon ancient traditions for depicting a theophany, the prophet depicts the coming of Yahweh to punish the city, whose sins are idolatry and the abuse of the poor.
Like many other Christian writers, he also claims that heresy began with Simon Magus, a figure whom receives mention in Acts 8: 9-13 for being a magician from the city of Samaria.
* Judea and Samaria, official Israeli name for the West Bank
In the years 1931 to 1934 Kenyon worked simultaneously at Samaria, then under the administration of the British Mandate for Palestine, with John Crowfoot and Grace Crowfoot.
Acts tells of a person named Simōn practicing magic in the city of Sebaste in Samaria, meeting with Philip the Evangelist, and then trying to offer money to the Apostles in exchange for miraculous abilities, specifically the power of laying on of hands.
In the 1994 Oslo accords, responsibility for the administration over some of the territory of Samaria ( Areas ' A ' and ' B ') was transferred to the Palestinian Authority.
* Entry for Samaria in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
On the other hand, Samaritans ( tribes of Menasseh, Ephraim and partially Benjamin and Levi ) became named for Samaria.
He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria.
As a reward for his assistance, Claudius gave Agrippa dominion over Judea and Samaria, while the kingdom of Chalcis in Lebanon was at his request given to his brother Herod.
Claudius, showed himself grateful to Agrippa for important services rendered him, and upon his accession, placed under his rule the remainder of Palestine, the territories of Samaria, Judea, and Idumæa, formerly governed by Archelaus.
William Whiston, A. M .) book 3, section 48, mentions Akrabbim in this way: " Now as to the country of Samaria, it lies between Judea and Galilee ; it begins at a village that is in the great plain called Ginea, and ends at the Acrabbene toparchy, and is entirely of the same nature with Judea ; for both countries are made up of hills and valleys, and are moist enough for agriculture, and are very fruitful.
In the Gospels generally, " though the Jews of Jesus ' day had no time for the ' half-breed ' people of Samaria ," Jesus " never spoke disparagingly about them ," and " held a benign view of Samaritans.
At times, their activity in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip is under the auspices of Palestinian terrorist organizations, and that sometimes, " ISM members, who seek entry into Israel, often do so under false pretenses, via cover stories-entry for matrimonial, tourist, religious and other purposes-which they coordinate prior to arriving in Israel.
Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the holy Spirit, for it had not yet fallen upon any of them ; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Al-Sumayriyya is Arabic for " The Little Samaria ".
Zaka armoured ambulance for use in Judea and Samaria Area
In June, Robert and Gaston IV of Bearn led the vanguard which arrived at Ramla, and with Tancred of Taranto he led an expedition into Samaria to find wood in order to construct siege engines for the Siege of Jerusalem.
* The northern kings did not reign over the southern kingdom, and they would certainly not have been honored with a tumulus ceremony in Jerusalem ; if any ceremonies were held for them, they would have transpired in the north ( near Bethel, Tirzah, or Samaria ).

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