Samaritan revolts

Samaritan revolts
Diocese of the Orient at the Byzantine period, where Samaritans largely inhabited Palaestina Prima (Samaria).
Date 484–572 Location Palaestina Prima (Samaria), Diocese of the East, Byzantine Empire Result Byzantine victories Territorial changes Samaria remained a part of Palaestina Prima until the Sassanid Persian invasion in 614.
Belligerents
Byzantine Empire Dux Palaestinae troops Arcadiani Ghassanid Arabs	Samaritan rebels Jewish rebels (556 and 572 revolts)
Commanders and leaders
Asclepiades and Rheges (484 revolt) Governor Procopius (495 revolt) Emperor Justinian I (ben Sabar revolt) Stephanus and Amantius (556 revolt)	Justa (Justa uprising); "a Samaritan woman" (495 uprising) Julianus ben Sabar  (ben Sabar revolt) Samaritan and Jewish leadership (556 and 572 revolts)
Casualties and losses
ben Sabar revolt: Severe casualties	ben Sabar revolt: 20–100,000 killed[1] 556 revolt: 100–120,000 casualties[2]

The Samaritan revolts (c. 484–573) were a series of insurrections in Palaestina Prima province, launched by the Samaritans against the Eastern Roman 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.