Editing Samaria (section)

=== Early Muslim, Crusader, Mamluk and Ottoman periods ===
Following the [[Muslim conquest of the Levant]], and throughout the [[Bilad al-Sham|early Islamic period]], Samaria underwent a process of [[Islamization]] as a result of waves of conversion among the remaining Samaritan population, along with the migration of Muslims into the area.<ref name=":10">{{Cite journal |last1=לוי-רובין |first1=מילכה |last2=Levy-Rubin |first2=Milka |date=2006 |title=The Influence of the Muslim Conquest on the Settlement Pattern of Palestine during the Early Muslim Period / הכיבוש כמעצב מפת היישוב של ארץ-ישראל בתקופה המוסלמית הקדומה |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23407269 |journal=Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv / קתדרה: לתולדות ארץ ישראל ויישובה |issue=121 |pages=53–78 |jstor=23407269 |issn=0334-4657 |access-date=2023-02-05 |archive-date=2023-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205140101/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23407269 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="autogenerated257">M. Levy-Rubin, "New evidence relating to the process of Islamization in Palestine in the Early Muslim Period - The Case of Samaria", in: ''Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient'', 43 (3), pp. 257–276, 2000, [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]</ref><ref name="Fattal, A. 1958 p. 72-73">Fattal, A. (1958). ''Le statut légal des non-Musulman en pays d'Islam'', Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique, pp. 72–73.</ref> Evidence implies that a large number of Samaritans converted under [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid]] and [[Tulunids|Tulunid]] rule, as a result of droughts, earthquakes, religious persecution, high taxes, and anarchy.<ref name="autogenerated257" /><ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=לוי-רובין |first=מילכה |title=ספר השומרונים |publisher=יד יצחק בן צבי, רשות העתיקות, המנהל האזרחי ליהודה ושומרון: קצין מטה לארכיאולוגיה |year=2006 |isbn=978-965-217-202-0 |editor-last=שטרן |editor-first=אפרים |edition=2 |location=ירושלים |pages=562–586 |language=Hebrew |trans-title=Book of the Samaritans; The Continuation of the Samaritan Chronicle of Abu l-Fath |editor-last2=אשל |editor-first2=חנן}}</ref> By the mid-[[Middle Ages]], the Jewish writer and explorer [[Benjamin of Tudela]] estimated that only around 1,900 Samaritans remained in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] and [[Syria (region)|Syria]].<ref>Alan David Crown, Reinhard Pummer, Abraham Tal (eds.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=_iMnzhSSbowC&pg=PA70 ''A Companion to Samaritan Studies,''] Mohr Siebeck, 1993 pp.70-71.</ref>

==== Ottoman Period ====
During the [[Ottoman period|Ottoman Period]], the northern part of Samaria belonged to the
[[Turabay dynasty|Turabay]] Emirate (1517–1683), which encompassed also the [[Jezreel Valley]], [[Haifa]], [[Jenin]], [[Beit She'an Valley]], northern [[Jabal Nablus]], [[Manasseh Hills|Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe]], and the northern part of the [[Sharon plain]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=al-Bakhīt |first1=Muḥammad ʻAdnān |last2=al-Ḥamūd |first2=Nūfān Rajā |title=Daftar mufaṣṣal nāḥiyat Marj Banī ʻĀmir wa-tawābiʻihā wa-lawāḥiqihā allatī kānat fī taṣarruf al-Amīr Ṭarah Bāy sanat 945 ah |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/28579982 |access-date=15 May 2023 |website=www.worldcat.org |publisher=Jordanian University |pages=1–35 |language=en |publication-place=Amman |publication-date=1989}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marom |first=Roy |title=Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine |url=https://www.academia.edu/101515579 |journal=Levant |year=2023 |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=218–241 |doi=10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484 |s2cid=258602184 |access-date=2023-05-10 |archive-date=2023-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718032959/https://www.academia.edu/101515579 |url-status=live }}</ref> The areas south of Jenin, including [[Nablus]] itself and its hinterland up to the [[Yarkon River]], formed a separate district called the District of Nablus.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Doumani |first=Beshara |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K6QwDwAAQBAJ |title=Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900 |date=12 October 1995 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-20370-9 |language=en |access-date=10 May 2023 |archive-date=10 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510152920/https://books.google.com/books?id=K6QwDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>