Back الثورات السامرية Arabic Самарянски бунтове Bulgarian Revueltas samaritanas Spanish شورشهای سامریها Persian Révoltes samaritaines French מרידות השומרונים HE Pemberontakan-pemberontakan Samaria ID Revoltas Samaritanas Portuguese Samaritanski ustanci Serbo-Croatian Самарићански устанци Serbian
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 Diocese of the Orient at the Byzantine period, where Samaritans largely inhabited Palaestina Prima (Samaria). | |||||||||
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 Unknown leader (484 revolt)
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ben Sabar revolt: 20,000–120,000 killed 556–572 revolt: 140,000 killed Jewish revolt against Hercalius: 66,509 killed[1] |
ben Sabar revolt: 20,000–100,000 killed 556–572 revolt: 100,000–120,000 killed[2] Jewish revolt against Hercalius 4,518 killed[3] | ||||||||
The Samaritan revolts (c. 484–573) were a series of insurrections in Palaestina Prima province, launched by the Samaritans against the Byzantine Empire. The revolts were marked by great violence on both sides, and their brutal suppression at the hands of the Byzantines and their Ghassanid allies severely reduced the Samaritan population. The events irreversibly shifted the demographics of the region, making the Christians the only dominant group in the Palaestina Prima province for many decades onward.
- ^ Avni, Gideon (2010). "The Persian Conquest of Jerusalem (614 C.E.)—An Archaeological Assessment". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 357: 35–48. doi:10.1086/BASOR27805159. S2CID 166897278.
- ^ Alan David Crown, The Samaritans, Mohr Siebeck, 1989, ISBN 3-16-145237-2, pp. 75–76.
- ^ Antiochus Strategos, The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 AD, F. C. Conybeare, English Historical Review 25 (1910) pp. 502-517.