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Samaria ostraca
The Samaria ostraca are 102 Hebrew-inscribed potsherds found at Samaria, ancient Israel's capital, recording wine and oil deliveries in the first half of the 8th century BCE.
Samaria Rupes
Samaria Rupes is an IAU-approved 193.35 km scarp (rupes) on Saturn's moon Enceladus, approved June 12, 2015, replacing Samaria Fossa; the only known linear scarp there, a normal fault with 572 m relief, named from the One Thousand and One Nights.
Samarinda
Samarinda, capital of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the Mahakam River; largest city in Kalimantan (893,385 recorded, 2025). Founded 1668 by Bugis Wajo migrants; GRDP Rp 106.62 trillion, HDI 83.53, first in the province.
Samaritan (film)
Samaritan is a 2022 American superhero film directed by Julius Avery, written by Bragi F. Schut, starring Sylvester Stallone and Javon Walton, released on Prime Video August 26, 2022, with a sequel in development at Amazon MGM.
Samaritan Aramaic
Samaritan Aramaic is the Western Aramaic dialect of the Samaritans, spoken in Samaria during the Roman and Byzantine periods and used in the Samaritan Targum.
Samaritan Girl (사마리아)
Samaritan Girl (사마리아, Samaria) is Kim Ki-duk's 2004 South Korean drama about two schoolgirls in prostitution and a detective father, winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 54th Berlinale.
Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritan Hebrew (עברית שומרונית), the Hebrew dialect of the Samaritan Pentateuch and Samaritan liturgy, written in the Samaritan script, with 20 consonants, lost gutturals, and about 6,000 Pentateuch variants versus the Masoretic text.
Samaritan Pentateuch
The Samaritan Pentateuch, also called the Samaritan Torah, is the Hebrew Pentateuch used by the Samaritans, differing from the Masoretic Text in thousands of readings.
Samaritan woman at the well
The Samaritan woman at the well is the unnamed figure of John 4:1–42 who meets Jesus at Jacob's Well near Sychar, and whom Orthodox tradition names Photini.
Samaritan Zatoichi (座頭市喧嘩太鼓)
Samaritan Zatoichi (座頭市喧嘩太鼓, Zatoichi kenka-daiko) is a 1968 Daiei chambara film, the 19th Zatoichi entry, directed by Kenji Misumi and starring Shintaro Katsu; it was the last Zatoichi produced solely by Daiei, released December 28, 1968.
Samaritan's Purse
Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian relief organization founded in 1970 and headquartered in Boone, North Carolina, best known for Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts.
Samaritanism
Samaritanism, also known as the Samaritan religion, is the ethno-religion of the Samaritans, who hold the Pentateuch alone as scripture and worship on Mount Gerizim.
Samaritans (שומרונים)
The Samaritans (Hebrew: שומרונים, Shomronim) are an ethnoreligious community descended from ancient Israelites who hold the Torah alone as scripture and venerate Mount Gerizim, near Nablus, as their one holy sanctuary, numbering about 880 in 2025.
Samarium
Samarium (symbol Sm, atomic number 62) is a silvery rare-earth metal isolated in 1879, best known for samarium-cobalt magnets and for dating the oldest rocks on Earth.
Samarium hexaboride
Samarium hexaboride (SmB₆) is a compound of samarium and boron that acts as a Kondo insulator with metallic surface conduction, making it the leading candidate topological Kondo insulator.
Samarium nickelate
SmNiO3, or samarium nickelate, is a rare-earth perovskite oxide whose metal–insulator transition near 400 K, antiferromagnetism, and huge hydrogen-induced resistance changes enable neuromorphic devices and tunable optics.
Samarium-149
Samarium-149 is a stable isotope of samarium with a very large thermal-neutron absorption cross section, making it, alongside xenon-135, one of the two principal fission-product neutron poisons in thermal nuclear reactors.
Samarium-doped ceria
Samarium-doped ceria (SDC), also called samaria-doped ceria, is a solid solution of samarium in cerium dioxide and a leading electrolyte for solid oxide fuel cells.
Samarkand
Samarkand, Uzbek city on the Zerafshan River, founded 7th century BC as Afrasiab, Timurid capital in the 14th–15th centuries, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2001 with Registan, Bibi-Khanum, Shakhi-Zinda, Gur-Emir.
Samarkand Kufic Quran
The Samarkand Kufic Quran, also known as the Uthman Quran or Tashkent Quran, is a large 8th- or 9th-century Quran manuscript in Kufic script kept in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Samarkand Sulci
Samarkand Sulci is a belt of subparallel ridges and furrows on Saturn's moon Enceladus, 360 km across, named in 1982 after the city in the Arabian Nights.
Samarqand Region
Samarqand Region (Samarqand viloyati) is a central Uzbekistan region around Samarkand city, a UNESCO World Heritage site; largest region by population (4.38 million, 2026), 14 districts, major heritage tourism and agriculture.
Samarra (سامراء)
Samarra (سامرّاء), Iraq's Abbasid capital from 836 to 892, founded by al-Mu'tasim 130 km north of Baghdad; a 41.5 km archaeological site with the Great Mosque, Malwiya spiral minaret, and 80% still unexcavated, a UNESCO World Heritage in Danger site since 2007.
Samarra culture
Samarra culture: Neolithic/Chalcolithic Mesopotamian archaeological culture of the middle Tigris (c.6300–5200 BC), distinct from Hassuna and Halaf, known for fine painted pottery and the earliest secure irrigation farming at Choga Mami.
Samarra ware
Samarra ware is the luxury glazed pottery of ninth-century Abbasid Iraq, first recovered from the palace city of Samarra in excavations of 1911 to 1913.
Samarth Ramdas (समर्थ रामदास)
Samarth Ramdas, also known as Ramdas Swami, was a 17th-century Marathi saint and poet, born Narain at Jamb in Maharashtra, who founded the Ramdasi sampradaya.
Šamaš temple (Khorsabad)
The Šamaš temple (Shamash temple) at Khorsabad, ancient Dur-Sharrukin, was one of six temples built by Sargon II (r. 721–705 BC) around a square courtyard on the palace terrace, identified by an inscription in Room 172's doorway.
Samasource Impact Sourcing
Samasource Impact Sourcing, doing business as Sama, is a San Francisco AI data annotation company founded in 2008 by Leila Janah, employing workers in Kenya, Uganda, and India.
Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (AP Sunnis)
AP Samastha (Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama, AP Sunnis) is the Kanthapuram-led Sunni-Shafi'i scholarly body in Kerala, formed 1926 and split from the EK faction in 1989, running the SKIMVB madrasa board with about 10,000 madrasas.
Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (EK Sunnis)
Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama, known as the EK faction, is Kerala's largest body of traditional Shafi'i Sunni scholars, founded in 1926 and headquartered at Chelari.