Before the current positive era of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox dialogues, Chalcedonians sometimes used to call the non-Chalcedonians " monophysites ", though the Coptic Orthodox Church in reality regards monophysitism as a heresy.

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 his elevation to the Roman episcopacy, a difference in dating the celebration of the Christian Passover / Easter between Rome and the bishops of Asia Minor had been tolerated by both the Roman and Eastern churches.

Before Jews preferred the USA but the USA drastically limited immigration from Eastern Europe.

Before the Eastern Jin the city was known as Jianye ( 建業 Jiànyè ), and the capital of the kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period.

Before settlement, Clay County was home to the Cherokee Indians, who were a tribe of Native Americans that made their home in Southeastern United States ( principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee ) They were one of the " Five Civilized Tribes " because of their assimilation of European-American cultural and technological practices.

Before that, the Eastern Church had kept January 6 as the Nativity under the name " Epiphany.

Before the formation of Anderson County, Tennessee, that territory was initially land of what is today called the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, which had been settled by several pioneer families including the Wallace, Gibbs, Freels, Frost and Tunnell families.

Before that, it was owned by the defunct Lexington and Eastern Railway Company as a passenger and freight line.

Before statehood, when the Five Tribes or Five Civilized Tribes were moved to Oklahoma from the Eastern United States, the area that is now Coweta became part of the Creek Nation.

Before that time, Eastern Europe had been much more sparsely populated than Western Europe, and the lords of Eastern Europe created a peasantry-friendly environment to encourage migration east.

Before that, the Defender of the Eastern Section ( 東部都尉 ) was put to rule former Lintun's seven prefectures.

Before and after independence in 1960, Nigeria was a federation of three Regions: Northern, Western, and Eastern.

Before the forces of Batu and Guyuk met though, Guyuk, sick and worn out by travel, died en route at Qum-Senggir in Eastern Turkestan, possibly a victim of poison.

Before the late twentieth century the oldest existing copy of the Analects known to scholars was found in the " Stone Classics of the Xinping Era ", a copy of the Confucian classics written in stone in the old Eastern Han dynasty capital of Luoyang around 175 AD.

" Before Game 5 of the 2005 Eastern Conference Finals between the Heat and the Detroit Pistons, there was a minute of silence to honor Mikan.

Before his final internment, he had about the most unique and elaborate weeklong funeral ceremonies in Nigeria besides Chief Obafemi Awolowo, whereby his body was carried around the five Eastern states, Imo, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra, including the nation's capital, Abuja.

* Before the arrival of maize in Eastern Europe, mămăliga was made of millet flour, but nowadays millet mămăligă is no longer made.

Before the establishment of patriarchs ( beginning in AD 325 ), metropolitan was the highest episcopal rank in the Eastern rites of the Church.

Before the Crusades, Jews had practically a monopoly on the trade in Eastern products, but the closer connection between Europe and the East brought about by the Crusades raised up a class of Christian merchant traders, and from this time onwards, restrictions on the sale of goods by Jews became frequent.

Before his takeover of Eastern was completed, his efforts to build a sustainable, profitable airline model were criticized, with opponents saying his companies ' profits were earned " on the backs of broken labor contracts, extremely low wages and harsh work rules.

Before the fall of Singapore, the Eastern Fleet's naval base at Singapore ( HMNB Singapore ) was part of the British Far East Command.

Before World War Two, both dialects were commonly used in Eastern Poland, but after the war, when thousands of people were forced to move out of Kresy, and settle in Western Poland, Kresy dialects lost its speakers.

Before 1889, the Kansas Southern Railway ( later the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) had built a line from the Kansas-Oklahoma border to Purcell in Indian Territory.

Before CSX owned the line, it was part of the L & N Railway as a passenger and freight.

Before James J. Hill bought the Great Northern Railway in 1879 and accepted the task of completing the line from Crookston to the Canadian border, a French-Canadian man founded a town named Louisa, after the French king, in the path of the railroad.

Before the construction of the Betuweroute Highspeed Railway, thorough soil research was performed in 1997.

Before the opening of the North Coast Railway Line, the only way to transport large items of heavy but low value, such as timber, was by coastal shipping.

Before the Civil War, the Kings Mountain Railway had operated as far north as Yorkville from Chester, but the tracks were destroyed during the war.

Before Amtrak, the Empire Builder was the flagship train of the Great Northern Railway.

Before that there was a service to the Smithfield Railway Station.

Before he was 19, he quit school and found employment with the Bengal and North Western Railway, initially working as a fuel inspector at Manakpur in the Punjab, and subsequently as a contractor for the trans-shipment of goods across the Ganges at Mokameh Ghat in Bihar.

Before the opening of the Rajputana State Railway to Khandwa in 1872, there was no better place to trade than in Ratlam.

Before the West Clare Railway opened in 1887, the only way to get to the town was by paddle steamer from Limerick to Kilrush and then by horse and cart from there.

Before the Tidewater division of the Virginian was linked to the Deepwater line, it played an important role, in conjunction with the regional Norfolk Southern Railway, in transporting thousands of people to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, an event marking the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the British colony at Jamestown.

Before the 1923 Grouping the first section of the line ( Leeds-Bradford ) was owned by the Great Northern Railway ( GNR ); and the entire remainder by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( L & YR ), apart from the final section of the branch leading into Huddersfield, which was owned by the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ).

Before the 1923 Grouping all the routes over which these services operate were worked by the North Eastern Railway.

Before the Mass Transit Railway ( MTR ) served the area, there were only few private residential blocks west of the estate.

Before the construction of Robina Town Centre shopping complex and the Robina Railway Station, the suburb of Robina Town Centre ( sub-suburb of ' Robina ') was formerly known as Kerrydale.

Before the consolidation into the B & W, an interchange with the Framingham, Southboro and Marlborough Street Railway existed at Framingham Center.

Before its return to York in 2004, the locomotive worked on the Bluebell Railway in East Sussex.

Before the original bridge was constructed, the Parramatta River was crossed in this area by a vehicular punt, just downstream of the Meadowbank Railway bridge.

Before this deal could be completed the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway came in with an offer which was accepted.