Ethnically, the Samaritans are believed to have been a mixture of various, mainly Semitic races, including the remnants of the Israelites who were not deported by the Assyrians in 722 BCE or fled into exile at that time.
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Since the Assyrians were the conquering power, they were unlikely to have sent their own poeple into the former kingdom of Israel, but they did send a great many Arabs. The Samaritans were a mixture of all these races, including Israelites, but not Jews, who continued to live safely in the kingdom of Judah until the Babylonian conquest. Most Samaritans eventually became Jews.
