The county of Yorkshire (abbreviated as Yorks & formally known as the County of York) is an historic county in Northern England and is the largest county in the United Kingdom -------------------------------------------------------------------The original name came from "Eborakon" (c. 150) which is an old Brythonic name and probably derived from "Efor" or "the place of the yew-trees," becoming Jorvik in 866 AD when the Viking invaders defeated the Anglo-Saxons--previously, held by the Celtic Britons & occupied by the Romans On our 2023 visit to the UK for a friend's birthday, we learned of the Jorvik place when we were in York: https://donshave.website/Home/UK%20Trip%20(Sep-2023).html Don has also captured an ancestor from the Vikings: https://donshave.website/Tree/DJ_Tree/Details%20for%20Don's%2050th%20GGF=Viking%20Dag%20DagsSon.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Vikings were skilled at building ships, farming, and trading, making the city a significant market for local & imported goods--they established a kingdom that stretched from the River Tees south to the River Thames The immediate area around Jorvik was split into three ridings: the East, the West and the North Riding; sadly, many of the hundreds of events in this area of the tree do not specify an appropriate riding... https://wikishire.co.uk/wiki/Ridings_of_Yorkshire and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding_(division) The City of York laid outside of the ridings to emphasize its political impartiality ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jorvik became York after King Athelstan regained control of the city in 927 AD; the name first appeared in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1065 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yorkshire ------------------------------------------------------------------- Because of its great size in comparison with other English counties, functions have been undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform. Throughout these changes, Yorkshire has continued to be recognized as a geographic territory and cultural region -------------------------------------------------------------------The name is familiar and well understood across the United Kingdom and is in common use in the media and the military, and also features in the titles of current areas of civil administration such as North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire The emblem of Yorkshire is the White Rose of the English royal House of York, and the most commonly used flag representative of Yorkshire is the white rose on a blue field which, after nearly fifty years of use, was by the Flag Institute on 29 July 2008