Before the closing of the acquisition, NYSE Euronext announced that the AMEX would be integrated with the Alternext European small-cap exchange and renamed the NYSE Alternext U. S.

Before the break with papal authority in the 16th century, the Church of England was an integral part of the Western European church.

Before Delaware was settled by European colonists, the area was home to the Eastern Algonquian tribes known as the Unami Lenape or Delaware throughout the Delaware valley, and the Nanticoke along the rivers leading into the Chesapeake Bay.

Before the 20th century, European sources often referred to the Dalai Lama as the " Grand Lama ".

Before the Ethiopian civil war, the national carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, flew to numerous African, Asian, and European cities, and had sole rights on domestic air traffic.

Before, the regionalists had been seated divided, with the SNP with the Gaullist-dominated European Democratic Alliance, VU, the Valdotanian Union and the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) in the Rainbow Group, together with green parties, the South Tyrolean People's Party ( SVP ) with the Group of the European People's Party, and Batasuna among the Non-Inscrits.

Before 1500 European economies were largely self-sufficient, only supplemented with Asia and Africa.

Before the Industrial Revolution in the mid-to-late 19th century, demand for oriental goods remained the driving force behind European imperialism, and ( with the important exception of British East India Company rule in India ) the European stake in Asia remained confined largely to trading stations and strategic outposts necessary to protect trade.

Before the 18th century the Kalevala poetry was common throughout Finland and Karelia but in the 18th century it began to disappear in Finland, first in western Finland, because European rhymed poetry became more common in Finland.

Before that, it fostered regional integration and trade through the Central European Free Trade Agreement ( CEFTA ), which included Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany ( 1917 – 1929 ), and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany.

Before European colonisation, the area had been inhabited by the Whadjuk Noongar people for over 40, 000 years, as evidenced by archaeological findings on the Upper Swan River.

Before the establishment of the present European Commission, there was the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community.

Before the arrival of European settlers, the history of the Saharan region is mainly characterized by the consolidation of settlements in large state entities – the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire.

Before World War II, many European architects moved to the United States, where modern architecture continued to develop.

Before he taught other rehabilitators, or " orientors ," his new technique he had a special commission to have light weight, long white canes made for the veterans of the European fronts.

Before European settlement, the area in which Canberra would eventually be constructed was seasonally inhabited by Indigenous Australians.

Before European expansion into the area, the Arapahos were living in South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas.

Before the Abenaki — except the Pennacook and Mi ' kmaq — had contact with the European world, their population may have numbered as many as 40, 000.

Before a European festival tour in late 1993, Howe and Burns left and were replaced by guitarist Keith More.

Before that, the first known people of European descent to come to the area were the troops of the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, during the American Revolutionary War.

Before the advent of Islamic states and European colonialism, the rivers provided the main means of communication, although Java's many rivers are mostly short.

Before colonization, Sumba was inhabited by several small ethnolinguistic groups, some of which may have had tributary relations to the Majapahit Empire.

Before colonization the senior queen acted as a check and counterweight to the king's power, both through her direct control of some military forces and her control of rainmaking medicines and rites and of key aspects of the Ncwala national ritual that annually binds the fate of the king and the nation together.

Before American colonization, the land along the Smoky Hill River was favored hunting ground for the Plains Indians.

Before Spanish colonization ( a time referred to as the prehispanic era ), two large tribes, the Caribs and the Muiscas, inhabited this part of modern day Colombia.

Before the spread of MRSA into the community, abscesses were not considered contagious, because it was assumed that infection required violation of skin integrity and the introduction of staphylococci from normal skin colonization.

Before the effective colonization of these territories, the intention of the British was to use both force and agreements to control chiefs in Asante and the north.

Before European colonization of surrounding valleys in the mid 19th century, Paiute Indians occupied summer hunting camps up to about 13, 100 feet ( 4, 000 meters ), leaving ruins of archeological interest.

Before European colonization, Burrowing Owls probably inhabited every suitable area of the New World, but in North America they have experienced some restrictions in distribution since.

Before the colonization of the Americas, Russia was a major supplier of fur-pelts to Western Europe and parts of Asia.

Before the Spanish colonization, this land was inhabited by the Diaguitas and Calchaquíes, who practiced agriculture.

Before Spanish colonization, Chamoru life centered on one's clan.

Before Dutch colonization and Christianization, Torajans, who lived in highland areas, identified with their villages and did not share a broad sense of identity.

Before the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, the groups now included under the term did not consider themselves as belonging to one cohesive ethnic group.

Before the colonization by the French of the North African and Sahel countries in which they dwell, the nomadic Tuareg federations chose a chief among the wise men of the tribes to rule the loose union of closely related groups.

Before Spanish colonization, the area was home to the Guacana, an Amerindian tribe belonging to the Panche Amerindian Nation.

Before colonization, the area was home to the indigenous Algonquin who called the place Wabakin, from wàba and akin meaning " there is a mountain of hardwood ", and called the La Sarre River Adikameg Sibi, which was also identified as Amikitik.

Before British colonization, they were sedentary cattle-herders, sometimes also practicing agriculture.

Before colonization, the Thiès Plateau was a wooded frontier between the kingdoms of Cayor and Baol inhabited by the Serer-Noon, an ethnic sub-group of the Serer people.

Before the colonization of the Americas, the area served as a trading post for Native Americans in the region.

Before European colonization, wildfires occurred most frequently in the tan, yellow, blue, pink, and light green areas.

Before European colonization, there were large areas of western aspen and aspen parkland in the west of what would become Canada and the United States.

Before the Spanish colonization.

Before the colonization by the British, the Nandi had well organised administration, so much so that this allowed them to surpassed the Maasai as the fiercest people within East and Central Africa.

Before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, not much is known of the region's history.