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What is 'the history' of the Samaria sub-region of the Province of Judaea from the Roman Empire days through the dissolution of the Empire up to the Middle Ages [roughly]?

I usually find what I'm looking for and move on but would love to have some "pro" help with this little query. I have found it annoyingly difficult to get a search engine to find real, responsible, professional historical writings on this.

What I run into is a massive echo chamber of religiously-burdened thin, poorly sourced fragmented histories that are dominated by either/both Biblical Jewish/Christian histories. Wash/rinse/repeat. If I didn't know better I should think the people group and/or geo region had gone through various name changes complicating the matter, but I have no evidence of that obfuscating results.

This is not a study of ethnicity, per se, though that aspect is interesting especially since some of the big genetic DNA/analysis firms seem to show good data suggesting that the region did have more Israelis than some earlier historical sketches want to portray.

That aside, I am interested in the size, growth, events & characteristics of the "Samaritan" populace and their spread or movements over the centuries in question [maps would be so valuable].

If anyone has book titles, or links or other reference data I can take it from there.

EDITS: Trying to respond to questions: I want to learn the history of the population of Samaria in terms of their population size, spread, migration (if any) from 6CE through 1099CE. I do not need additional sources for “the origins of people groups extant within the Samaria borders by the beginning of 1sr Century CE”. I do not need religious developments of the various peoples who were extant in the stated territory by beginning of 6CE.

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    Requests for sources used to be disallowed (I suppose they still are but I haven't been very actively following for a while), perhaps you can formulate some more specific questions? (e.g. what is known about the population of Samaritans, their geographic spread, etc)
    – Felix Goldberg
    Commented Apr 26, 2022 at 22:05
  • Could you clarify the exact problems you encountered, a bit? EG, the biggest difference between Jews & Samaritans is religion (am also unsure how you use "Israelis" here)? So a focus on the people will include that angle, and there are works that aren't overly religious in their own nature (such academic works currently I'd use for an A, but your title suggests a focus on geographical region but the body seems to inquire mainly about the people's history?) Perhaps quote 1–3 of your finds & explain how they are not what you look for?
    – LаngLаngС
    Commented Apr 27, 2022 at 11:42
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    Could you also clarify the period you are interested in: dissolution of what Empire are you talking about? (The Eastern Roman Empire, aka Byzantine Empire, continued to exist until mid 15th century.) Also, when do you think the Middle Ages begin? From my viewpoint, they begin with the end of the Western Roman Empire...
    – Moishe Kohan
    Commented Apr 27, 2022 at 19:59
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    @MoisheKohan If you look at the edit history there were more concise dates in an earlier version of the question.
    – justCal
    Commented Apr 27, 2022 at 20:14
  • @justCal: I see, so the intended time period is from 66 CE till the 10th Century. I find this at odd with "from the Roman Empire days through the dissolution of the Empire up to the Middle Ages." Oh well...
    – Moishe Kohan
    Commented Apr 28, 2022 at 0:12

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