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York is the name of a number of places around the world. It is also a surname (sometimes spelt Yorke), an English royal house, a dukedom and an archbishopric.The original York is York, England, which derives its name from the Viking Jorvik. The city gives its name to the traditional county of Yorkshire, and hence also to the modern counties of North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, and the region of Yorkshire and the Humber. It is the site of the University of York and the home of York City association football club.
The House of York was a fifteenth century dynasty of English kings.
The Duke of York is a title traditionally given to a younger son of the English (and, later, British) monarch. Several notable historical figures have held this title; the current duke is Prince Andrew. The Archbishop of York is the junior of the two archbishops in the Church of EnglandThe Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and is the mother branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. Christianity was planted in Britain in the first or second c; the current archbishop is Dr David HopeThe Most Reverend and Right Honourable David Michael Hope (born April 14, 1940) is the current Archbishop of York, in the Church of England, and has held that position since 1995. Before then he was the Bishop of Wakefield from 1985 and then Bishop of Lon.
Several ships of the British Royal NavyThe Royal Navy is the navy of the United Kingdom. It operates a number of aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, fifteen nuclear submarines, and various other ships, as well as aircraft and Britain's amphibious forces, the Royal Marines. The Royal Navy have been named HMS YorkSeveral ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS York for the county seat of Yorkshire, on the River Ouse. The first York was renamed from Marston Moor upon the restoration in 1660. The 54 gun vessel had been launched in 1654. After nearly half a centu.
The York RiteMasonic Organizations The York Rite is one of the two main branches of Freemasonry in the United States which a Master Mason may decide to join for further exposure to Masonic knowledge, the other branch being the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Some is a branch of freemasonryFreemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization. Its members are joined together by shared ideals, of both a moral and metaphysical nature, and, in most of its branches, by a common belief in a Supreme Being. Freemasonry is an esoteric art, in that cert.
1 Places named York
The City and Dukes of York have given their name to a number of places:
- in CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe:
- York, Upper CanadaYork was the original name of Toronto, Ontario. The town was established in 1793 by Governor John Graves Simcoe, who believed that York would be a superior site for the capital of Upper Canada then at Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake). York became the capi is the former name (until 1834) of Toronto, Ontario. The township and county then surrounding the city retained the original name of York; they eventually became the Cities of York and North York and the Borough of East York (all of which were amalgamated into Toronto in 1998 but survive as informal place names), and the Regional Municipality of York (immediately north of Toronto in the Greater Toronto Area). Yorkville, once a village adjacent to Toronto, is also now a district of the city. Toronto also has a York University.
- in the United States of America
- New York City and New York State, named for King James II of England, who was Duke of York at the time of their establishment (see also New York (disambiguation))
- York, Alabama
- York, Maine
- York, Nebraska
- York, New York
- York, Nebraska
- York, North Dakota
- York, Pennsylvania
- York, South Carolina
- York, Wisconsin (three places):
- York Beach, Maine
- York Harbor, Maine
- York Charter Township, Michigan
- York Township, Minnesota
- York Springs, Pennsylvania
- East York, Pennsylvania
- York Haven, Pennsylvania
- Little York, Illinois
- Little York, Indiana
- York County, Maine
- York County, Nebraska
- York County, Pennsylvania
- York County, South Carolina
- York County, Virginia
