Before Nepal's emergence as a nation in the later half of the 18th century, the designation ' Nepal ' was largely applied only to the Kathmandu Valley and its surroundings.

Before the term " Art Nouveau " became common in France, le style moderne (" the modern style ") was the more frequent designation.

Before this aircraft were put into service under their manufacturers designation.

Before he did so, postal maps were made with the temporary designation " Mann's Choice " written on it.

Before it got its International designation in 1975, Indianapolis's primary commercial air passenger and cargo facility was called Weir-Cook Municipal Airport, after Col. Harvey Weir-Cook

Before Version 9, there was a non-user system account in the project ( group ) zero ( the designation is ), and all accounts in project number 1 were privileged ( not unlike the root account on Unix systems ).

Before the section between the M11 and A13 opened in 1987, the A406 designation extended as far as east as Gants Hill.

Before the designation of Milton Keynes in 1967, Stony was in Wolverton Urban District, north Buckinghamshire.

Before the designation of the national park, the area was used for shifting cultivation ( chena farming ).

Before 1959, the stretch of Highway 93 east of Radium had a designation of ' 1B ', reflecting its connection to the Trans-Canada Highway within Alberta at Castle Junction.

Before receiving the State Road 120 designation, the road was known as Toledo Road, as the section within Elkhart it used to occupy is still known, and is presently named Toledo Street as it passes through Orland and through Fremont.

Before its designation, it was known as several different legislative route numbers, including 258 from Interstate 580 to present-day SR 61, and 227 from Warren Boulevard to U. S. Route 50.

Before their formal designation as state reptiles, Florida's alligator, Maryland's terrapin, and Texas's horned lizard were all mascots of a major in-state university.

Before the Alpha designation was finally transferred to Allegheny College ( its current location ), the Ohio Wesleyan chapter disappeared temporarily because of a lack of membership.

Before being given a name by the IAU, this crater had the designation Neper G.

Before the designation of SR 78, a road known as the Brawley-Westmorland-Julian-Oceanside Highway ( connecting Oceanside, Escondido, Ramona, Julian, Westmorland, and Brawley ) existed during the early twentieth century.

Before a capacity crowd of 24, 000, he received the designation of " Kentucky Colonel " from Governor Ernie Fletcher, the highest honor a native son of the State of Kentucky can receive.

Before it was given the M-247 designation, the roadway has been a part of M-111 and M-47.

Before the designation, US 33 ran north into Michigan south of Niles.

Before the parallel bridge was built, I-275 boasted a bypass designation system.

Before the US 399 designation was deleted in 1964, SR 33 followed SR 166 east from US 99 at Wheeler Ridge to Maricopa in lieu of the segment from Ventura to Maricopa, and followed the old US highway from Taft to Maricopa.

Before, geologists could only use fossils to date sections of rock relative to one another.

Before the Minoan eruption, the caldera formed a nearly continuous ring with the only entrance between the tiny island of Aspronisi and Thera ; the eruption destroyed the sections of the ring between Aspronisi and Therasia, and between Therasia and Thera, creating two new channels.

Before joining with Taylor to become the Riverside School District, many of these geographic sections housed their own elementary schools.

Before leaving their parent colonies, winged females take a small section of fungus into their bucchal pouches, and with this, the subsequently wingless queens ' seed ' the fungus gardens of incipient colonies, cutting and collecting the first few sections of leaf themselves.

Before Candlestick Park's upper deck was extended, the area behind right field was occupied by three small bleacher sections and a lot of open space.

Before 1924 large sections of the forest were cut for timber.

Before the water reaches the falls it is split into two branches by the Kreenholm island, thus the falls consist of two sections: Kreenholm Falls to the west of the island ( 60 m in width, 6. 5 m high with multiple terraces ) and Joala Falls to the east ( 110 m in width, up to 6. 5 m high ).

Before the North Strathfield-Mays Hill and Huntingwood-Emu Plains sections of the then Western Freeway were joined by the construction of the missing link from Mays Hill to Huntingwood, the section of the highway between Reservoir Road, Huntingwood and Russell Street, Emu Plains was signposted as national route 32.

Before the American Civil War the mountain was a popular hiding place for slaves who had escaped from their owners in the central and eastern sections of North Carolina.

Before the show, they gather in a square, then parade in sections of the city, often near the beach.

Before a racing event at RIR, track crews added traffic pylons to close off sections of the track.

Before Candlestick Park's upper deck was extended, the area behind right field was occupied by three small bleacher sections and a lot of open space.

Before the " Noisette " and " Backwards " sections were added to " Slightly All the Time ", Soft Machine performed a shorter version of " Slightly " as part of a suite which also included an abbreviated " Out-Bloody-Rageous ".

Before its mouth in the Moro Gulf, it splits into two parallel sections, the Cotabato and Tamentaka, separated by a 180 m ( 600 ft ) hill.

Before Quin Snyder came to coach the Tigers, student seating was scattered throughout the arena and distributed via who picked up tickets first, and while the largest amount sat along one sideline ( including the band, Student Athletic Board and the aforementioned Antlers ), others sat as high as the D sections, which early in the arena's life doubled as lecture halls ( to this day, their seats have fold-out writing desks ).

Before seats were added to all sections in 2005, the stadium was notorious for holding more people than it was intended to.

Before this, the area which makes up the modern neighborhood of Mount Airy was part of two sections of the original Germantown Township ( which covered all of Germantown, Mount Airy, and Chestnut Hill ), Cresheim and Beggarstown.

Before sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, Borneo was part of the mainland of Asia, forming, with Java and Sumatra, the upland regions of a peninsula that extended east from present day Indochina and Thailand.

Before the arrival of the Europeans, the region was inhabited both by Algonquian ( Ojibwa, Cree and Algonquin ) in the northern / western portions and Iroquois and Wyandot ( Huron ) tribes more in the south / east.

Before the creation of Llandaff Cathedral it became established as a Christian place of worship in the 6th century AD, probably because of its location as the first firm ground north of the point where the river Taff met the Bristol Channel, and because of its pre-Christian location as a river crossing on an east west trade route.

Before 09: 00, small parties from F / 116 and B / 116 reached the crests just east of Dog White.

Before the St. Felix's Flood of 1530, it flowed north as a river from the east end of the Westerschelde, turned west a little west of Bergen op Zoom, and then west along the north edge of what is now the Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal, and after that widened into an estuary.

Before 1800 they made the Black Dog Trail starting east of Baxter Springs, Kansas and going northwest to their summer hunting grounds at the Great Salt Plains in present-day Alfalfa County.

Before the 20th century, the tiny settlement was concentrated around in what was Kenton Lane ( the easternmost part of which remains as Old Kenton Lane to the east of Kingsbury station ) and is now part of the present day Woodgrange Avenue and Kenton Road.

Before the Beeching Axe the town had a number of railway stations and a direct link to London down the east coast.

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 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 1780, Grigsby ’ s Bluff, explicitly that part of Port Neches immediately east of Port Neches Park, had been an Indian town for at least 1, 500 years, at first of the Karankawa tribe, whose 7-foot skeletons were often found in the burial mounds there ; and after 1650 of the Nacazils, a sub-tribe of the Attakapas, who were a short and stocky people before their extinction about 1780.

Before the Stone Hill development and the nearby Pfluger Crossing development ( a development that includes a Wal-Mart Supercenter ) opened their first stores in 2007, the city's two largest retailers were an Albertsons grocery store ( which operated from 1996 to 2006 ) near Pflugerville High School and an H-E-B grocery store ( operating since 2000 ) east of downtown.

Before the valley was linked by road to Kristiansand in the 1840s, people routinely traveled east and west across these moorlands.

Before any filling in or silting up, this tributary of the Tamar was tidal as far to the north east as Pennycomequick and the western end of Ford Park Cemetery.

Before the borough mergers of 2003, the neighboring boroughs were Røa and Vinderen in the north and Uranienborg-Majorstuen and Bygdøy-Frogner in the east.

Before the railway came the area was rural and specialised in growing lavender ; Lavender Hill is to the east of the station.

Before the last ice age the River Frome continued to flow east through what is now the Solent, joining the Stour, Beaulieu, Test, Itchen and Hamble, before flowing into the English Channel to the east of the present day Isle of Wight.

Before the end of 1098 Dagobert set out for the east with a lawless Pisan fleet, which made successful raids on Byzantine owned islands and skirmished with the Byzantine navy, before going on to Syria.

Before the arrival of the Romans, the Dumnonii seem to have inhabited the southwest peninsula of Britain as far east as the River Parrett in Somerset and the River Axe in Dorset, judging by the coin distributions of the Dobunni and Durotriges.

Before long it enters the centre of Eccles proper, splitting into two as Church Street and Irwell Place going east, passing the library and a Morrisons, and Corporation Road going west.

Before the fire of 1890, the building was laid out such that the east wing provided access to the convocation hall, the museum and the library, and contained an entrance to the quadrangle.

Before the arrival of white settlers, the areas surrounding Lassen Peak, especially to its east, south, and southeast, were the traditional homeland of the northeastern Maidu American Indians.

Before the arrival of Europeans it was already a rare bird, confined to the Ruahine, Tararua, Rimutaka and Kaimanawa mountain ranges in the south east of the North Island.

Before the situation could develop into a rout Mmanthatisi suddenly disengaged her armies and retreated with her hordes to the east.