Samaria שומרון
Capital of the Northern Kingdom: the city of Achav and Izevel, home of Eliyahu and Elisha, fallen to Assyria.
Shomron was founded by king Omri, who bought the hill from a man named Shemer, and for two centuries it was the capital of the ten tribes. Under his son Achav the city is wealthy: an ivory-panelled palace, Phoenician trade, and a Phoenician queen, Izevel, who brings the cult of Baal and its hundreds of prophets.
That is why Shomron is the stage of the Tanakh's fiercest struggle. Eliyahu appears from nowhere, declares a drought, challenges Baal's prophets on Mount Carmel, and then flees the queen's rage. His disciple Elisha lives in the city, saves it from famine during an Aramean siege, and anoints kings. Amos and Hoshea denounce its luxury.
In 3205, after a three-year siege, Assyria takes the city; the ten tribes are exiled and foreign settlers replace them.