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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]]. 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"), from which the name "York" (via various Old English and Old Norse adaptations) ultimately derives.

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"), from which the name "York" (via various Old English and Old Norse adaptations) ultimately derives. In c. 150 AD, Ptolemy recorded two tribes of ancient Britons in present-day Yorkshire. The [[Brigantes]] controlled much of the modern-day north and North Midlands of England, with their capital being ''Isurium Brigantium'' (Aldeborough), with the Parisi occupying an area similar to the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] and their capital was most likely ''Petuaria'' (Brough, 12 miles west of Hull).

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]].