Before the establishment of ICANN, the Government of the United States controlled the domain name system of the Internet.

Before its establishment, Rulers were immune from any proceedings brought against them in their personal capacity.

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

Before its establishment as a Republic, Rome was ruled by kings ( Latin reges, singular rex ).

Before the establishment of the League of Corinth, even though the Macedonians apparently spoke a dialect of the Greek language and claimed proudly that they were Greeks, they were not considered to fully share the classical Greek culture by many of the inhabitants of the southern city states, because they did not share the polis based style of government.

Before the establishment of University College Falmouth Cornwall was one of the few counties without a university.

Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the Vatican opposed Zionist policies and objectives in Palestine.

Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Switzerland maintained a consulate in Jerusalem and a consular agency in Tel Aviv.

Before the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, civil power in Japan was primarily held by the ruling emperors and their regents, typically appointed from the ranks of the imperial court and the aristocratic clans that vied there.

Before the establishment of the Chickamauga Post in 1902 by United States Army, an unincorporated city existed, where Fort Oglethorpe was later established, called Hargrave, Georgia after the name of the land owner and ex-Confederate soldier, William Hamilton Hargrave.

Before the establishment Wahkon, the site was an Ojibwe village named Sagawamick ( from the Ojibwe language Zaagawaamik, meaning " Sandbar ").

Before the establishment of centralized post offices, local offices were established in general stores, railroad depots and other public venues in densely populated areas.

Before the establishment of the leidang, the defence of the realm was probably based on voluntary contribution to a defence-fleet.

Before his Privy Council appointment, Chalmers applied himself to investigating the history and establishment of the English colonies in North America.

Before the construction of the first monastic establishment in the 8th century, the island was called " monte tombe ".

Before the establishment of the Executive Yuan in 1928, the premier of the Republic of China was created as " Premier of Cabinet " in 1912.

Before the formation of UTJ and the establishment of Degel HaTorah, the two factions were united under one united Agudat Yisrael party, but the late mentor and supreme guide of the non-Hasidic group, Rabbi Elazar Shach ( 1898-2001 ) broke away from the Hasidic wing when it was clear that the party was not living up to its mandate to represent all Torah Jewry.

Before its establishment, monetary functions were performed by government departments and agencies.

Before the establishment of the Margraviate of Brandenburg it was the place of a Slavic stockade.

Before the establishment of the High Court, appeals from the state Supreme Courts could be made only to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which involved the great expense of physically travelling to London.

Before the end of the Chinese Civil War and the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the airport provided flight routes between Shanghai and Taipei, occasionally via Fuzhou.

Before the establishment of Israel, the Arab village of Yibna was located there.

Before 1967 I had not found it difficult to publish reports in these journals, and by then I had about 150 articles and several books in the establishment press.

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

Before the establishment of modern nation states in the region during the mid-20th century, Maghreb most-commonly referred to a smaller area between the Atlas Mountains in the south and the Mediterranean Sea, often also including eastern Libya, but not modern Mauritania.

Before 1971, a municipality could be called a town ( stad ), a köping or a rural municipality ( landskommun ); present municipalities which used to be towns are still commonly called towns.

Before 2011 it held the same position in the administrative hierarchy, according to Law 2539 of 1997, the Kapodistrias Plan, except that Ithomi was an independent municipality and Ancient Messene was a local division ( topiko diamerisma ) within it.

Before 1 January 2003, Oostburg was also the name of a municipality.

Before the 14th century Nederweert was part of the municipality of Weert.

Before 2005, Dinxperlo was a separate municipality, covering the town of Dinxperlo itself and the village of De Heurne.

Before 2011 there was also a municipality, since 2011 Lith is a part of Oss.

Before its merger, it was the smallest municipality in the Netherlands, covering an area of only 1. 75 km².

Before its merger with Jacobswoude, the municipality covered an area of 30. 91 km² ( 11. 93 mile² ) of which 3. 94 km² ( 1. 52 mile² ) is water.

Before the merger with Alkemade, the municipality covered an area of 41. 37 km² ( 25. 71 mile² ) of which 4. 88 km² ( 3. 03 mile² ) is water, mainly the lakes Braassemermeer and Wijde Aa.

Before 2007, the municipality covered an area of 38. 50 km² ( 14. 86 mile² ) of which 8. 69 km² ( 3. 36 mile² ) is water.

Before that, the municipality covered an area of 6. 07 km² ( 2. 34 mile² ) of which 0. 21 km² ( 0. 08 mile² ) is water, and had a population of 14851 inhabitants on 1 June 2005.

Before the Kommunalreformen (" The Municipality Reform " of 2007 ), Aabybro Municipality was a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in North Jutland County on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy, part of the Jutland peninsula, in northern Denmark.

Before January 1, 2007, Blåvandshuk was also the name of a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) that contained the headland.

Before its existence as an independent municipality in 1868, De Pinte was a part of Nazareth.

Before World War II, the municipality was mayored by Nils Tveit from 1916 to 1940.

Before 1908, the parish ( but not the municipality ) of Lyngdal was called Aa.

Before 1865, the parish and municipality were named Vaagø.

Before the merger Lillestrøm municipality had a population of 10, 840.

Before the merger the municipality of Harmelen had about 8000 inhabitants.

Before 2011, 48, 000 citizens lived in the city and 94, 158 in the municipality.

Before the 1999 Kosovo War, the municipality had a population estimated by the OSCE to comprise some 116, 500 people, 81 % of them Kosovo Albanian, 10 % Serb and the remainder other ethnicities ( notably Roma ).

Before 1648 it controlled about twice the land area as is currently part of the municipality.

Before the reform the municipality was part of Viborg County.

Before 1770, Pateros was only a barrio of Pasig until the Spanish Governor-General in the Philippines issued a decree making Pateros an independent municipality.