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York comes from the Viking name for the city, Jórvík.

Early inhabitants of Yorkshire were two separate tribes, the Brigantes and the Parisi. The Brigantes controlled territory which later became all of the North Riding of Yorkshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. The tribe controlled most of Northern England and more territory than any other tribe in England. That they had the Yorkshire area as their heartland is evident in that Aldborough was the capital town of their civitas under Roman rule.  The Parisi, who controlled the east that would become the East Riding of Yorkshire. Their capital was at Petuaria, close to the Humber estuary. Although the Roman conquest of Britain began in 43 AD, the Brigantes remained in control of their kingdom as a client state of Rome for an extended period, reigned over by the Brigantian monarchs Cartimandua and her husband Venutius. The fortified city of Eboracum  was named as capital of Britannia Inferior and joint-capital of all Roman Britain.