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Following the first Scandinavian Viking raid on Northumbria in 793 AD, an army of Vikings from [[Denmark]] invaded the south of Northumbria and conquered York in 866 AD. ''Eoforwic'' was once again adapted, this time into Old Norse ''Jorvik'', from which the present-day name "York" ultimately derives. Jorvik became the capital of a Scandinavian kingdom of the same name. Yorkshire formed the heartlands of this Scandinavian kingdom.
Following the first Scandinavian Viking raid on Northumbria in 793 AD, an army of Vikings from [[Denmark]] invaded the south of Northumbria and conquered York in 866 AD. ''Eoforwic'' was once again adapted, this time into Old Norse ''Jorvik'', from which the present-day name "York" ultimately derives. Jorvik became the capital of a Scandinavian kingdom of the same name. Yorkshire formed the heartlands of this Scandinavian kingdom.
The first known documentary reference to Yorkshire was in the reign of [[Edward the Confessor]] (reigned 1042-1066). ''Eoforwicscir'' was recorded in the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]] in 1060, the first document for formally distinguish men of York from the Northumbrians.
At the time the [[Domesday Book]] was taken in 1086 on the order of [[William the Conqueror]], Yorkshire was far larger and included areas of present-day Lancashire and Westmorland.
At the time the [[Domesday Book]] was taken in 1086 on the order of [[William the Conqueror]], Yorkshire was far larger and included areas of present-day Lancashire and Westmorland.