Initially a kingdom, the Roman Republic was founded in 509 BC, and would grow steadily over the next several centuries until it had supplanted Greek culture as the dominant Mediterranean civilization.

Initially modeled on the Anglican ideals of older, European institutions, the University of New Brunswick was founded in 1785 as the Academy of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Initially a defensive gród founded by Polish ruler Bolesław Chrobry, the settlement adopted Kulm law in 1291 while under the rule of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights and became a city.

Initially conceived for basketball, the BSC was founded in 1963 with six members in four states ; four of the charter members remain, and a fifth will return as a non-football member in 2013.

Initially, it was mainly a rural country with small, scattered developments in places like Westport which was founded in 1800 and served as the county seat early on.

Initially founded as a seminary by a territorial legislative charter in 1859, the school became a four year degree granting institution in 1883.

Initially founded as a kimono retail store in 1858 by Chūbei Itō, C. Itoh & Co. Ltd., gradually evolved from pure buying and selling to manufacturing, supplying, exporting, and investments.

Initially, Ian Anderson founded The Designers Republic to design flyers for the band Person to Person, which he managed at the time.

Initially written by Jean Marc Brun and Michel The ' ron at Laboratoire d ' informatique pour la mécanique et les sciences de l ' ingénieur ( LIMSI ) for modelling fluid flow, they founded their own company, Datavision in 1979 and then sold a controlling interest in 1980 to the French company Matra Datavision.

Initially, there were two unions both founded in 1874 – the Irish Football Union had jurisdiction over clubs in Leinster, Munster and parts of Ulster ; the Northern Football Union of Ireland controlled the Belfast area.

Initially founded to regulate the Glass Selling and Pot-Making industries within the City of London, and to ensure quality and fair trade.

Initially operating from a single-room apartment, Technōs was founded in 1981 by three staff members of Data East.

Initially developed as part of another project, it grew so popular that developers Tim Wilkinson and Peter Mehlitz founded Transvirtual Technologies, Inc. with Kaffe as the company's flagship product.

Initially he remained a backbencher in the Legislative Assembly for the Labour Front ( the largest party in the assembly at the time ), but he left the party in 1957 and founded the Worker's Party of Singapore.

Initially founded as " IG Tatsunoko Limited " in 1987, it was a break-off branch-studio of Tatsunoko Productions which created Zillion.

Initially involved with the Socialist Youth movement in 1935, Robert Hersant founded the rightist political party Jeune Front in the summer 1940.

Initially two labor parties were founded by immigrants to Palestine of the Second Aliyah ( 1904-1914 ): the pacifist and anti-militarist Hapo ' el Hatza ' ir ( Young Worker ) party and the Marxist Poale Zion party, with Poale Zion roots.

Initially, PALplus was the name of a strategy group founded in 1989 in order to develop an enhanced system for terrestrial transmission compatible with standard-PAL.

Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese association for plastic arts and a platform for the creation and exchange of artistic practices. It was founded by Christine Tohme, Marwan Rechmaoui, Rania Tabbara, Mustapha Yamout and Leila Mroueh Initially, Ashkal Alwan promoted and introduced the work of artists who have been engaged in critical art practices within the context of post-war Lebanon.

Initially, all monks and nuns were hermits, but in about 350 Mar Awgin founded the first cenobitic monastery of Mesopotamia on Mount Izla above the city Nisibis after the Egyptian model.

Initially working for New York Life and Sears, he founded his own agency in the late 1980s.

Initially, the company was founded as Stearman Aircraft Corporation in October 1926 at Venice, California, where four C1 and C2 biplanes were built before production halted for financial reasons.

Initially, the Christian and Missionary Alliance was not founded as a denomination, but as an organized movement of world evangelism.

Initially it was founded as the trade union wing of Communist Party of India ( Marxist-Leninist ) Red Flag, but in 2005 CPI ( ML ) Red Flag merged with CPI ( ML ).

Initially founded to campaign for a “ yes ” vote for the euro, it then progressed to support a “ yes ” vote for the referendum on the European Constitution.

Initially the owners of AOI were the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, before the latter governments gave their shares back to Egypt in 1993, valued at $ 1. 8 billion.

Initially a drummerless duo, Ballew and Dederer performed a half-dozen or so shows in 1993 as " The Lo-Fis ", " The Dynamic Duo ", and " Pure Frosting.

Initially, it was suggested that tolling would cease once the original cost of construction plus the accrued interest was repaid – this was done in 1993 and it was planned that tolls would not be levied after May 1995.

Initially released as the " pod " with the AV Macs in 1993, it later became its own separate product in early 1995 when it was released for PowerPC-based Macintosh machines that did not include AV-related hardware out of the box.

Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television ( Central in 1993 and 1994 ) and shown on ITV.

Initially the film was to be largely based on Aphrodite Jones ' 1993 true crime book All She Wanted, which told the story of Brandon's final few weeks alive.

Initially the editor of the Batman titles, Giordano was named the company's new managing editor in 1981, and promoted to Vice President / Executive Editor in 1983 ( a position he held until 1993 ).

Initially, his only vocalizations included mostly animal-like sounds like cooing or roars, but hints were dropped as early as Uncanny X-Men # 168 that he was capable of more articulate words like “ oops ” and was shown as capable of speaking some words of English years later in Fantastic Four Versus the X-Men # 4 ( June 1987 ) and Excalibur volume 1, # 64 ( April 1993 ).

Initially, the only soundtrack used for the opening was the sounds of the characters, but in the fall of 1993 a piano solo composed by John Debney was added as theme music.

Initially called The Solid Rock of Jesus Christ, the show was renamed the Cross Rhythms Experience in 1992, and became a syndicated show in 1993.

Initially released in June 1993 on floppy disks for IBM Personal Computers and their clones that ran MS-DOS, Space Hulk was later published for other platforms and media.

Initially published by ECC Publications, and later EMAP, it was published in the UK between 1982 and 1993, and was the longest running Sinclair-based magazine.

Initially, in 1989, the only finish available was # 300 Champagne lacquer, however, by 1993, the last year of production, # 110 Sequoia Red, # 113 Sheer Blue, # 103 Piano Black, and # 109 Arctic White were also available.

Initially debuting in a three-issue miniseries, the series met with enough success to justify a monthly series, launched in 1993.

Initially only available as a two-door, in May 1993 a four-door version was added, named the Today Associe.

In that law, the mission of NDIC was “ to coordinate and consolidate .” Initially being staffed with intelligence analysts and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) and administered by the FBI, NDIC opened its doors officially in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in August 1993.

Initially located in Aarhus, per August 1, 1993 it has its headquarter in Karup, Denmark.

Initially called Gateshead MetroCentre, the station's name was shortened to MetroCentre from 17 May 1993.

Initially he presented Freetime, on ITV, but reached a much wider audience with Edd the Duck and Wilson ( an arm purporting to be part of a butler ) in " The Broom Cupboard " slot on Children's BBC, which he presented from May 1989 to September 1993.

Initially working in Toronto, from 1986 through 1993 they divided their time between Toronto and New York before returning to Toronto for the last few months of their time together.

Initially limited to the broadcast range of WFAN in the New York metropolitan area, the show's radio audience and influence expanded considerably once Westwood One began syndicating it in 1993.

Initially opened in 1993, the Main Street Trolley Line uses classic streetcars on a system that has grown to three routes: one along the riverfront, another serving Main Street in the heart of downtown Memphis, and an extension on Madison Avenue.