Before the Treaty of Rawalpindi was concluded in 1921, Afghanistan had already begun to establish its own foreign policy, including diplomatic relations with the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1919.

Before the Treaty was fully ratified, Axel Jorgenson, an immigrant from Fredrikshald, Norway, settled in the area by 1852 as a sooner.

Before 1736, all settlement in Pennsylvania was kept east of the Susquehanna River, but the Indian Treaty of 1736 extended Lancaster County's boundary westward indefinitely.

Before, Charles XII had forced Denmark-Norway to sign the Treaty of Travendal.

Before the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force on 1 December 2009 no provision in the treaties or law of the European Union outlined the ability of a state to voluntarily withdraw from the EU.

Before the Treaty of Union in 1707, Scots was the state language of Scotland used for all government business.

Before the Maastricht Treaty, member states cooperated at the intergovernmental level in various sectors relating to free movement and personal security (" group of co-ordinators ", CELAD, TREVI ) as well as in customs co-operation ( GAM ) and judicial policy.

Before 1935, despite the fact that the INAO was yet to be created, champagne enjoyed an appellation control by virtue of legal protection as part of the Treaty of Madrid ( 1891 ).

Before the Iberian Union period ( 1580 – 1640 ), Spain tried to prevent Portuguese expansion into Brazil with the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas.

Before the Treaty of Stralsund in 1370, and during the reign of Eric of Pomerania, the Hanseatic towns were in a state of war with Denmark for hegemony in the Baltic Sea.

Before the Treaty of Trianon, Zalău was one of the most important urban centers in the region.

Before the Sugauli Treaty in 1816 between British India and Nepal, Siliguri played as a transit point between Nepal and the hilly areas of Darjeeling ( Doreje-liang ) and ‘ Karseong ’.

Before World War II Forster had tried and failed to gain control over the organisation of the irredentist activities of the minority ethnic German population in the Polish Corridor, neighboring Freie Stadt Danzig, which was created in 1920 by Treaty of Versailles ), rather it was the SS-dominated Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle that won control.

Before Russia secured the coast by the Treaty of Adrianople ( 1829 ), a brisk slave trade had been carried on between the mountaineers and the Ottoman Empire.

Before this Reform Treaty of Lisbon was signed on 13 December 2007 Valery Giscard D ' Estaing explained this in an article " La boîte à outils du traité de Lisbonne " in Le Monde of 26 October 2007.

Before long, it was obvious that development of automatic weapons was unaffected by the Treaty of Versailles.

Before the case of Baumbast, it was widely assumed that non-economically active citizens had no rights to residence deriving directly from the EU Treaty, only from directives created under the Treaty.

Before the British could continue their attack towards Mobile they received word that the Treaty of Ghent, ending the war, had been signed on Christmas Eve, 1814.

Before German reunification in 1990, both West and East Germany ratified the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany.

Before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 the present-day regions of Burgenland, Prekmurje and Međimurje were integral parts of Transdanubia.

Before Annales, French history supposedly happened in Paris.

Before Wright returned to Paris, he gave a confidential report to the United States consulate in Accra on some of the things he had learned about Nkrumah and his political party.

Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II.

Before leaving Paris he heard, and was deeply impressed by, the octet of the American jazz saxophonist Gerry Mulligan which was to give him the idea of forming his own octet on his return to Buenos Aires.

Before the Code, France did not have a single set of laws-law consisted mainly of local customs, which had sometimes been officially compiled in " customals " ( coutumes ), notably the Coutume de Paris.

Agnes Mongan has written of the portrait drawings: Before his departure in the fall of 1806 from Paris for Rome, the familiar characteristics of his drawing style were well established, the delicate yet firm contour, the definite yet discreet distortions of form, the almost uncanny capacity to seize a likeness in the precise yet lively delineation of features. The preferred materials were also already established: the sharply pointed graphite pencil on a smooth white paper.

Before its commercial premiere in Paris, the film was shown to invited audiences in several French cities, including La Ciotat.

Before deboarding, however, Luc sneaks the vine and necklace into Kate's bag, knowing she would not be searched at customs, and then offers Kate a ride into Paris.

Before the faculty could do so, the Parlement de Paris intervened, forbidding the Sorbonne faculty to consider the propositions.

Before World War I, he traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin.

Before this journey, Paris had been appointed by Zeus to judge the most beautiful goddess ; Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite.

Before the Paris studios were fully sound-equipped — a process that stretched well into 1930 — a number of other early French talkies were shot in Germany.

Before she moves to Paris, he runs after her at the airport and describes the family they had in the alternate universe in an effort to win back her love.

Before the end of World War II, he returned to Paris where he resumed abstract painting and writing poetry.

Before succeeding his brother Odo as King he was the Count of Poitiers, Marquis of Neustria and Orléans and Count of Paris.

Before leaving Poland for Paris, Chopin clutches Polish earth in his hands.

She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, including Europa Europa ( 1990 ), The Voyager ( 1991 ), Three Colors: White ( 1993 ), Before Sunrise ( 1995 ), Before Sunset ( 2004 ), and 2 Days in Paris ( 2007 ).

Before his last year at New School, Ford spent a year and a half in Paris, where he worked as an intern in Chloé's press office.

Before that, he was a teacher in Paris, to ca.

Before becoming president, Sánchez Hernández was an army general in El Salvador and had brief stints as a military attaché in Washington ( after his participation in the overthrow of José María Lemus in 1960 ) and in Paris.

Before his political career Sorsa worked for UNESCO in Paris 1959 – 1965, and was Secretary-General of Finnish UNESCO board 1965 – 1969, and official in the Ministry of Education 1967 – 1969.

Before his death, he split his time between Paris and Atlanta, where he taught at Emory University as the Woodruff Professor of Philosophy and French.

Before the creation of Pakistan, it was known as the Paris of India, for its roads used to be washed with river water.