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"I counted as spoil 27,280 people, as well as their chariots, and gods, in whom they respected. I shaped a unit with 200 of [their] chariots for my royal pressure. I settled the rest of them in the midst of Assyria. I repopulated Samaria more than before. I helped bring into it people from countries conquered by my hands. I appointed my commissioner as governor over them, and I counted them as Assyrians." - Sargon II, Assyrian king In the eighth hundred years BCE, one of the most crucial provinces within the Assyrian Empire was Samaria. Also known as Israel, Samaria frequently rebelled against their Assyrian overlords, however in 722, the Assyrians overran Samaria forever, killing countless numbers and sending most of the rest of its inhabitants into forced exile. The incidents of Samaria's semester were chronicled in the Assyrian annals from the reign of Sargon II and the Old Testament, and even though the two resources present the event from different perspectives, they corroborate the other person generally and jointly present a trusted account of the problem. The end result was that 30,000 Israelites were forcibly deported from the region, a strategy the Assyrians found so effective that they would continue to utilize it against other conquered foes until the semester of their own empire. The Assyrians' pressured exile of the Israelites had not been really the only time such a destiny possessed befallen them, as clarified by Babylonian accounts and the Biblical bill of the Exodus out of Egypt, but it was that exile that once and for all scattered most of the famous 12 tribes of Israel, and the destiny of the 10 lost tribes has interested people since.
