n.
ancient Eboracum
City and unitary authority (pop., 2001: 181,131), geographic county of North Yorkshire , historic county of Yorkshire , England.
Located at the confluence of the Ouse and Foss rivers, it is the cathedral city of the archbishop of York and was historically the ecclesiastical capital of northern England. It was also the seat of the historic county of Yorkshire. York was a Celtic and then a Roman settlement. Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor in York in AD 306. It was conquered by the Danes in 867. York suffered severely in the Norman conquest of northern England in the 11th century. During the Middle Ages it was a prosperous wool-trading town and the performance site of the York plays . It has a manufacturing economy and a tourist industry fostered by its medieval sites.