Eboracum Eboracum Eboracum (Latin /ebo'rakum/, English or ) was a fort and city in the Roman province of Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britain and a provincial capital. The site remained occupied after the decline of the Roman Empire and ultimately evolved into the present-day city York, occupying the same site in North Yorkshire, England. Two Roman emperors died in Eboracum: Septimius Severus in 211 AD, and Constantius Chlorus in 306 AD. The first known recorded mention of Eboracum by name is dated and is an address containing the genitive form of the settlement's name,
Joshua (name) Joshua (name) Joshua is a Biblical given name derived from the Hebrew "Yehoshua" (). The name was a common alternative form of the name – yēšūă which corresponds to the Greek spelling Ἰησοῦς ("Iesous"), from which, through the Latin "Iesus", comes the English spelling Jesus. As a result of the origin of the name, a majority of people before the 17th century who have this name were Jewish. A variant, truncated form of the name, Josh, gained popularity in the United States in the 1970s. Information from the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics from 2003 to 2007 shows "Joshua"