York

York is situated at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and it has been the site of some major political events throughout its long existence.
The city was founded and named Eboracum in AD 71 by the Romans who made it the capital of their Province of Britannia Inferior. To the city's importance, even in its early years, attests the fact that the entire Roman Empire was governed from York for two years by Septimius Severus. In AD 415 the Angles came and the city was renamed Eoforwic. It served as the capital of the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. In AD 866, the Vikings captured the city and renamed it Jórvík, which became the capital of a wider kingdom of the same name covering much of Northern England. After the Norman Conquest, the name "York", which was first used in the 13th century, gradually evolved. After the Wars of the Roses, York housed the Council of the North and was regarded as the capital of the North. However, after the Restoration, the political importance of York began to decline.
The Province of York is one of the two English ecclesiastical provinces, alongside that of Canterbury. From 1996, the term City of York describes a unitary authority area which includes rural areas beyond the old city boundaries.