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== History ==

== History ==

The immediately pre-Roman inhabitants of what is now Yorkshire were the Celts. The Celtic language of Great Britain was Common Brittonic, which is the ancestor of modern the Brittonic Celtic languages [[Breton]], [[Cornish]] and [[Welsh Language|Welsh]].

The immediately pre-Roman inhabitants of what is now Yorkshire were the Celts. The Celtic language of Great Britain was Common Brittonic, which is the ancestor of modern the Brittonic Celtic languages [[Breton]], [[Cornish]] and [[Welsh Language|Welsh]]. Although the city of Eboracum was founded by the Romans in 71 AD, when a military fortress was constructed in the present-day city centre, its likely that the Celtic Britons had a settlement in the area; the name appears to be from [[Celtic language|Proto-Celtic]] ''*Eburakon'' ("place abounding in yew trees").

The fortified city Eboracum (York) was the capital of Brittania Inferior, a Roman province established in c. 200 AD and covering much of what is now Northern England and the [[Midlands]]. There are numerous Roman forts in Yorkshire, which would later be denoted in Old English by the ending ''-ceaster'', surviving as ''-caster'', with examples being [[Doncaster]] and [[Tadcaster]].

The fortified city Eboracum (York) was the capital of Brittania Inferior, a Roman province established in c. 200 AD and covering much of what is now Northern England and the [[Midlands]]. There are numerous Roman forts in Yorkshire, which would later be denoted in Old English by the ending ''-ceaster'', surviving as ''-caster'', with examples being [[Doncaster]] and [[Tadcaster]].