SAMARIA NEAPOLIS Philip II 247-249 AD bronze

Description

Samaria today is part of the West Bank, currently occupied by Israel, possible future Palestinian state. In Roman times it was between “Judea” and “Galilee, and was considered a rich province. The inhabitants were, like their neighbors the Jews, were unusually attached to their religion and resisted the statist paganism of the Romans, so there was always trouble. It has always been a province of some larger political entity, and was never its own independent country. Neapolis is modern Nablus.