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| | Yorkshire - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article |
 | | The emblem of Yorkshire is the White Rose of the House of York, and there is a Yorkshire Day celebrated on August 1. |
 | | The Yorkshire dialect is colloquially known as "Tyke", and this is also the "affectionate" (!) term for a Yorkshireman, though the term is not universally used by all Yorkshiremen and is virtually non-existent on the North Riding coastline. |
 | | In 1986 the county councils of West and South Yorkshire were abolished, and in 1996 Cleveland and Humberside were broken up into districts, which became independent administrative counties (unitary authority areas) in their own right, as did an expanded City of York. |
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