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Eboracum

[ eb-uh-rey-kuhm ]

noun

  1. ancient name of York, England.


Eboracum

/ ˌiːbɔːˈrɑːkəm; iːˈbɒrəkəm /

noun

  1. See York
    the Roman name for York 1


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Amongst others, the free inhabitants of Eboracum and Verulamium enjoyed the coveted rights of Roman citizenship.

Teste me ipso apud Eboracum, v die Marcii, anno regni nostri duodecimo.

He was the son of Constantius Chlorus, and was with him at Eboracum at the time of his death, and there assumed the purple.

Constantius, a man of the greatest humanity, having conquered Allectus, died at Eboracum in the sixteenth year of his reign.

Two hundred years is a considerable length of time, even in the history of a nation, and much happened in Eboracum in that while.

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