10 Facts About Eboracum

Eboracum was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia.

Name Eboracum comes from the Common Brittonic *Eburakon, which means "yew tree place".

Eboracum either brought, or sent earlier, the Sixth Legion to replace the existing garrison.

At around the same time Eboracum became self-governing, with a council made up of rich locals, including merchants and veteran soldiers.

In 296 Britannia Inferior was divided into two provinces of equal status with Eboracum becoming the provincial capital of Britannia Secunda.

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Range of evidence of Roman religious beliefs among the people of Eboracum have been found including altars to Mars, Hercules, Jupiter and Fortune.

The Episcopal see at Eboracum was called Eboracensis in Latin and Bishops from the See attended the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the Council of Serdica, and the Council of Ariminum.

The high number of sarcophagi from Eboracum has provided a large number of these casts, in some cases with cloth surviving adhered to the gypsum.

Military presence at Eboracum was the driving force behind early developments in its economy.

Eboracum published a systematic account of Roman York titled Eboracum or York under the Romans in 1842, including first hand records of discoveries during excavations in 1835.