Samar

(sah-mahr',) a fertile island of the Philippines, separated from Luzon on the N.W.by a strait 20 m. in width; bet. N. Lat. 11° 15′-12° 45', and E. Lon. 124° 15′125° 52′. It is 140 m. in length, with a mean width of 60 m. Pop. 100,000. Samara. (sa-ma'rah,) a city of Ru ia in Europe, C. of a govt. of same name, at the confluence of the Volga and Samara, 100 m. S.E. of Simbirsk. Pop. 34,494. [s. 792]