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The first known recorded mention of Eboracum by name is dated c. 95–104 AD, and is an address containing the genitive form of the settlement's name, Eburaci, on a wooden stylus tablet from the Roman fortress of Vindolanda in what is now the modern Northumberland. [1] During the Roman period, the name was written both Eboracum and Eburacum (in ...
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Jun 30, 2019 · Eboracum and the Emperors. Confirmation of Eboracum’s rise in prominence was offered by a series of imperial visits from the 2 nd to the 4 th centuries. The first of these was fleeting. The Emperor Hadrian, the empire’s most famous nomadic Philhellene, likely visited here in the early years of the 120s AD.
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. Ptolemy wrote in Greek so ...
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EBORACUM or Eburacum or Eburaco (York) Yorkshire, England. A legionary fortress and colonia. (Ptol. Geog. 2.3.16; It.Ant. 466.)The revolt of the Brigantes against their pro-Roman Queen Carturandua deprived the Roman province of Britain of a friendly buffer state on the N, and in the emergency the governor and commander in charge Pet. Pius Cerialis advanced Legio IX Hispana from its base at ...
Sep 5, 2023 · The history of York: a northern powerhouse of many names. Eboracum to the Romans, Eoforwic to the Anglo-Saxons, and the Vikings’ Jórvik – the great city of York has been treasured by successive occupiers over nearly two millennia. Pragya Vohra explores the long history of this fascinating city. Pragya Vohra. Published: September 5, 2023 at ...
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Sep 27, 2005 · Eboracum, Leslie P Wenham, (Guide and Company Ltd, 1984) Roman York from AD71, Herman Ramm, (Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society, 1985) Roman York, Patrick Ottaway, (B T ...
Jun 12, 2004 · Eboracum, the Roman name for York, sounds exotic and Latinised to our ears, and on initial consideration, appears to have little in common with the city's modern-day name.
