Ten Lost Tribes

Samaritans (; ; ; ), often preferring to be called Israelite Samaritans, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Hebrews and Israelites of the ancient Near East. They are indigenous to Samaria, a historical region of ancient Israel and Judah. They are adherents of Samaritanism, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion that developed alongside Judaism.

tribes of Israel that were said to have been deported from the Kingdom of Israel after its conquest by the Neo-Assyrian Empire circa 722 BCE

ancient Israelites relocated by the Neo-Assyrian Empire

thumb|Detail of choir (architecture)|choir windows in St Mary's church, [[Frankfurt (Oder), Germany (c. 1360s). The Red Jews wait at the banks of the river Sambation.]] According to rabbinic literature, the Sambation () is the river beyond which the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were exiled by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser V (Sanchairev).

ninth-century Jewish merchant and traveller