Historical Nonfiction

Old York, Old York

• It housed the Ninth Legion, and was called Eboracum, under the Romans
• The city derives its name from the Viking settlement there, Jorvik
• It became an independent city in the Medieval Ages, after wealthy merchants petitioned multiple kings for self-rule. Sounds like DC….
• Guy Fawkes was born in York in 1570. He met two fellow plotters there, who would be executed with him.
• Royalist York surrendered to the Parliamentarians after the siege of York in 1644

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