Before the French and Spanish occupation of Morocco, which started in 1912, the country's defence force was made of a regular Makhzen army, and of a less organized but much more powerful Berber tribes ' militias.

Based on radiocarbon dating of a shell found at the site dates the occupation at 3180 ± 100 BP ( Before Present ).

Before the occupation of Corsica by the Genoese, Cardo was a large city.

| 6 | Before that, Tunisia was under the Ottoman Turks who had seized lasting control in 1574 after a brief Spanish occupation.

Before the war against Cardassian occupation, the earring also symbolized one's d ' jara.

Before entering any occupation or advanced studies, the girls, like the boys in Hitler Youth, had to complete a year of land service (" Landfrauenjahr ").

Before the American occupation, Nueva Ecija was alread a hub of trade and commerce.

Before 1948, the ruined fortress was occupied by Bedouin of the al-Suwaytat tribe whose primary occupation was animal husbandry.

Before the Romans the Kettering area, like much of Northamptonshire ’ s prehistoric countryside, appears to have remained somewhat intractable with regards to early human occupation, resulting in an apparently sparse population and relatively few finds from the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.

Before World War II, it was home to a large Jewish community but during the Nazi occupation, in the winter of 1942, the majority of the Jewish community were transported to the Red Forest north of the town and murdered by gunfire.

Before and during the American occupation of the province, there was a significant propaganda war in which both the Americans and the British sought to gain the population's support.

Before Sauron's occupation it was called Amon Lanc " Naked Hill ".

Before long, Native Americans who had been allies of the defeated French found themselves increasingly dissatisfied with the British occupation and the new policies imposed by the victors.

Before these claims could be met, they were replaced by the ultimatum of the Allied governments, which gave the German government until May 12, under threat of occupation of the Ruhr valley, to declare that they had decided unreservedly to fulfil the obligations drawn up by the commission, to accept all of its dictated guarantees, to carry out immediately and without reserve the measures prescribed in regard to disarmament, and, finally, to proceed without delay to try the war criminals.

Before this occupation, according to 1931 census, Yugoslav Bačka had 784, 896 inhabitants, of whom 284, 865 Yugoslavs ( Serbs, Croats, Bunjevci, Šokci ), 268, 711 Hungarians and 169, 858 Germans.

Before construction, 25 Bank Street had been earmarked by Canary Wharf Group for occupation by Enron's European subsidiary.

Before the occupation, she and her daughter-in-law were engaged in mobilising the women of Denmark.

Before the Mughal occupation, Berar was part of the Nizam Shahi sultanate of Ahmadnagar.

Before the advent of colonialism, the Luhya, just as most other ethnic groups in Africa, defined their boundaries based on occupation of territory by a community of peoples with similar language, cultural traditions or under leadership of a particular ruler or king.

Before the battle of Mohács ( 1526 ), which marks the beginning of the Ottoman occupation of Hungary ( lasting for over 160 years ) the county had 13 castles, 13 market towns ( oppidum, including Miskolc and Mezőkövesd ) and 250 villages, owned by 235 different feudal lords including dioceses and monasteries.

Before and during the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, opposition to George W. Bush the war was widespread in Europe.

Before and during World War II it was again used by the Japanese, and again became the seat of their occupation regime from 1938-1945.

Before European occupation, the area was home to the Wurundjeri people.

In the period immediately before the Last Glacial Maximum, many areas that became completely barren desert were wetter than they are today, notably in southern Australia where Aboriginal occupation is believed to coincide with a wet period between 40, 000 and 60, 000 years BP ( Before Present, a formal measurement of uncalibrated radiocarbon years, counted from 1950 CE ).

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 2009 season, the right field roofbox seating area was renovated and expanded and the original 1912 seating bowl was water-proofed and seats replaced.

Before 1871, in the area where a single state of Germany now exists, different kingdoms and prinicipalities existed.

Before LG Enhanced IPS was introduced in 2009, the additional transistors resulted in blocking more transmission area, thus requiring a brighter backlight and consuming more power, making this type of display less desirable for notebook computers.

* Before the first boundary is an area that is ignored by MIME-compliant clients.

Before World War I there was a well-known colony of Molokans that had been exiled to the Caucasus ( an area long within Russian hegemony ), mainly to what is now Armenia, Azerbaijan, and eastern Turkey ( Kars plain ).

Before their overthrow they use the Sagoths, a race of gorilla-men who speak the same language as Tarzan's apes, to enforce their rule over the human tribes within the area which they rule.

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 that the area has been known as Roden, which is the coastal equivalent to inland Hundreds.

Before about 1860, most bay shores ( exception: rocky shores such as those in Carquinez Strait, along Marin shoreline, Point Richmond, Golden Gate area ) contained extensive wetlands that graded nearly invisibly from freshwater wetlands to salt marsh and then tidal mudflat.

Before the district was built, it mainly was agricultural area with some villages.

Before the war the Germans constituted 16 % of the population in the area.

Before printing occurs, the frame and screen must undergo the pre-press process, in which an emulsion is ' scooped ' across the mesh and the ' exposure unit ' burns away the unnecessary emulsion leaving behind a clean area in the mesh with the identical shape as the desired image.

Before this episode, Jesus had been " all about Galilee " preaching, as in Matthew 4: 23, and " great crowds followed him " from all around the area.

Before being deposited, sediment was formed by weathering and erosion in a source area, and then transported to the place of deposition by water, wind, ice, mass movement or glaciers which are called agents of denudation.

Before their defeat in 174 BC by the Romans, tribes of Ligures, the Statielli, dominated the area and the toponym probably derives from Ast which means " hill " in the ancient Celtic language.

Before any planning occurs the Engineer must take what is known as an inventory of the area or if it is appropriate, the previous system in place.

Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape ( Delaware ) Indians in the village of Shackamaxon.

Before early modern nation-building, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe as a low-lying triangular river delta for the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems.

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 1880s mortality rates in lying-hospitals would reach unacceptably high levels and became an area of public concern.

Before the Spanish conquest, the area that now is El Salvador was composed of three indigenous states and several principalities.

Before Europeans arrived, the New Haven area was the home of the Quinnipiac tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off local fisheries and the farming of maize.

Before planting, all clothes should be inspected for dodder seed when moving from an infested area to a non-infested crop.