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Eboracum

[ eb-uh-rey-kuhm ]

noun

  1. ancient name of York, England.


Eboracum

/ iːˈbɒrəkəm; ˌiːbɔːˈrɑːkəm /

noun

  1. the Roman name for York 1
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The now-closed show at MoMA PS1 focused on the “history” of a land known as Novum Eboracum, a.k.a.

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The cemetery they were buried in was once on the outskirts of Eboracum, a Roman legionary fortress and settlement that was one of the largest in Britain 1800 years ago.

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First the pounded earth, then the small stones, next the rubble, then the concrete, and last of all the pavement; here in Anderida, there across the swamps to Londinium, northwards through the fens to Eboracum--ten years of it.

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It was midnight,—yet a light was burning in a small chamber situated in one of the narrowest and least frequented streets of Eboracum,—then the metropolis of the world.

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Had he lived, he intended to extirpate the very name of the barbarians; but he died by the visitation of God, among the Brigantes, in the city of Eboracum.

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