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Eboracum ( Classical Latin: [ɛbɔˈraːkum]) was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britain and a provincial capital.
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Jun 12, 2004 · There are two variations for the Roman spelling of Eboracum, the other being Eburacum. Both appear on Roman inscriptions discovered in York. For the sake of simplicity, only the Eboracum...
Sep 27, 2005 · There are two variations for the Roman spelling of Eboracum, the other being Eburacum. Both appear on Roman inscriptions discovered in York. For the sake of simplicity, only the Eboracum...
The ancient name for York was Eburacum or Eboracum, and this name – or further variations of it – occurs in all four major classical geographies which cover Roman Britain. In Ptolemy’s Geography of the second century AD, York is listed among the nine towns attributed to the Brigantes tribe of northern Britain.
City of York Origins. The Roman name for York was Eboracum, based on a native British name for the ancient site. It is thought that the root of the early name was Eburos, an Ancient British personal name, which suggests that the site was founded by someone called Eburos. York Minster © David Simpson. An alternative view is that the name is ...
As York was a town in Roman times, its Celtic name is recorded in Roman sources (as Eboracum and Eburacum ); after 400, Angles took over the area and adapted the name by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc or Eoforīc, which means "wild-boar town" or "rich in wild-boar".
EBURĀCUM, or Eborācum (probably a later variant), the Roman name of York ( q.v.) in England.
