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,
Eboracum names the city is known in those languages). The name was then Latinized by replacing the Celtic neuter nominative ending "-on" by its Latin equivalent "-um",a common use noted also in Gaul and Lusitania. Various place names, such as Évry, Ivry, Ivrey, Ivory and Ivrac in France would all come from "*eburacon / *eburiacon"; for example: Ivry-la-Bataille (Eure, "Ebriaco" in 1023–1033), Ivry-le-Temple ("Evriacum" in 1199) Évry (Essonne, "Everiaco" in 1158), etc. The Roman conquest of Britain began in 43 AD but advance beyond the Humber did not take place until the early 70s AD. This was because the people in