Originating from different ethnic associations, Belarusian ( and also Polish and Lithuanian ) Tatars back in ancient days lost their native language and adopted Belarusian, Polish and Russian.

* Pankration: Originating from ancient Greece, it combines elements which today are found mainly in the punches of boxing ( pygmachia ) and in the kicking of many martial arts ( laktisma ) with moves from the also Greece-originating wrestling ( pale ) and Brazilian jiu jitsu joint locks, thus creating a broad fighting sport similar to today's mixed martial arts.

Originating from Uttar Pradesh, Kathak traces its origins to the nomadic bards of ancient northern India, known as Kathaks, or storytellers.

Originating in Dalian in 2005, the Chinese Championships of Crokinole ( CCC ) has been heavily contested since.

Originating in the Kimek Khanate, they conquered large parts of the Eurasian steppe during the Turkic expansion of the 11th to 12th centuries together with the Cumans, and were in turn conquered by the Mongol invasions of the early 13th century.

Originating in Europe, trade unions became popular in many countries during the Industrial Revolution, when the lack of skill necessary to perform most jobs shifted employment bargaining power almost completely to the employers ' side, causing many workers to be mistreated and underpaid.

Originating from the Congo region of Africa, these spirits include the many Simbi loa.

Originating from Nigeria ( specifically the Yoruba speaking tribes ) this nanchon includes many of the Ogoun spirits.

Originating as a sideshow exhibition in North American traveling carnivals and vaudeville halls, professional wrestling grew into a standalone genre of entertainment with many diverse variations in cultures around the globe, and is now considered a multi-million dollar entertainment industry.

Originating in the late nineteenth century as cultural evolutionism began to fall out of favor with many antiquarians and archaeologists, it gradually began to become unpopular amongst the archaeological community, being superseded by new archaeological theories, namely processual archaeology, in the mid twentieth century.

Originating in circa 1200 AD the belief system spread through many small warrior groups and spread from Asia outward toward the Indian sub-continent to eastern Europe.

Originating for the Marwar region of the state is the concept Marwari Bhojnalaya, or vegetarian restaurants, today found in many part of India, which offer vegetarian food of the Marwari people.

Originating along the Japanese islands this current passes through the Sea of Japan then divides along either shore of Sakhalin Island, eventually flowing into the northern Pacific Ocean via the strait north of Hokkaidō and into the Sea of Okhotsk north of Sakhalin Island near Vladivostok.

Originating along the Japanese islands, this current passes through the Sea of Japan then a branch eventually flowing into the Pacific

Originating from the Japanese Heian period, the kazaori eboshi ( 風折烏帽子 ) was worn by aristocrats to indicate rank.

Originating from the early intercolonial matches, these tests continued well after Federation of Australia in 1901 and the Australian Football Council co-ordinated regular interstate carnivals.

Originating in the medieval Northern March, the Margraviate of Brandenburg grew to become the core of the Kingdom of Prussia, which would later become the Free State of Prussia.

Originating in the Levant region of the Middle East ( modern Israel and Palestine ), it quickly spread to Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and Egypt.

Originating in the English village of Cheddar in Somerset, it is now produced in several countries around the world.

Originating in Guatemala, the Rio Lempa cuts across the northern range of mountains, flows along much of the central plateau, and finally cuts through the southern volcanic range to empty into the Pacific.

Originating in the circumstance of a multicultural church ( primarily Jewish and Hellenistic ), the author addressed issues appropriate to the diverse religious and cultural backgrounds present in the community.

Originating in eastern Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf.

Originating about 1800 BC from the Corded Ware Culture on the North German plain, the Germanic peoples expanded into southern Scandinavia and toward the Vistula river during the Nordic Bronze Age, reaching the lower Danube by 200 BC.

Originating in Los Angeles, California, LA-style is a favorite on the West Coast of the United States.

Originating in France, musical Impressionism is characterized by suggestion and atmosphere, and eschews the emotional excesses of the Romantic era.

Originating as a peasant dish, all parts of beef are used, including tail, leg and rib bones with or without meat attached ; these are boiled in water to extract fat, marrow, and gelatin to create a rich soup.

Originating in the Superman radio show series, the material is usually shown as having been created from the radioactive remains of Superman's native planet Krypton, and generally has detrimental effects on Superman and other Kryptonians.

Originating in Germany, some form of co-determination ( or Mitbestimmung ) procedure is practised in countries across continental Europe, such as Holland and the Czech Republic, as well as Scandinavian countries ( e. g. Sweden ).

Originating in Seattle, Washington, as the Seattle Pilots, the club played for one season in 1969 before being acquired in bankruptcy court by current MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and then moved to Milwaukee.

Originating from the Pagan Community Projects in Queensland in 2005, the Pagan Alliance Network ( PAN ) also ran a comprehensive PAGANDash program prior to the 2011 census in Australia.

Originating somewhere in the Aegean, their population was around 25, 000 in the 12th century BC, rising to a peak of 30, 000 in the 11th century BC, of which the Aegean element was not more than half the total, and perhaps much less.

Originating in either Western Scotland or Ireland, the sparr was widely used by the galloglass.

Originating in the Mandinka invasion, Mali continued to expand, encompassing first eastern Senegal, and later almost all the present territory.

Originating from conflicting state and federal legislation passed between 1787 and 1805, the dispute resulted from poor understanding of geographical features of the Great Lakes at the time.

The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including " hidden ", " esoteric ", " spurious ", " of questionable authenticity ", ancient Chinese " revealed texts and objects " and " Christian texts that are not canonical ".

The ancient Chinese called the substance " dragon's spittle fragrance ".

Examples of early botanical works have been found in ancient sacred texts from India, ancient Zoroastrian writings, and ancient Chinese works.

According to ancient Chinese, Indian and Javanese manuscripts, western coastal cities of Borneo had become trading ports, part of their trade routes, since the first millennium.

The 28 lunar mansions are one of the most important and also the most ancient structures in the Chinese sky, attested from the 5th century BC.

Parallels to the earliest Babylonian ( Sumerian ) star catalogues suggest that the ancient Chinese system did not arise independently from that of the Ancient Near East.

The findings at Anyang include the earliest written record of Chinese past so far discovered: inscriptions of divination records in ancient Chinese writing on the bones or shells of animals – the so-called " oracle bones ", dating from around 1200 BC.

Although much of Chinese philosophy begins in the Warring States period, elements of Chinese philosophy have existed for several thousand years ; some can be found in the Yi Jing ( the Book of Changes ), an ancient compendium of divination, which dates back to at least 672 BCE.

Although the People's Republic of China has been historically hostile to the philosophy of ancient China, the influences of past are still deeply ingrained in the Chinese culture.

Yin and yang are ancient Chinese concepts which can be traced back to the Shang dynasty ( 1600 – 1100 BC ).

Yin, Yang, and the five elements are associated with themes in the I Ching, the oldest of Chinese classical texts which describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy.

Nevertheless, the ancient Chinese concept of Qi or chi is believed to be close to that of air.

Water is one of the elements in ancient Greek philosophy, in the Asian Indian system Panchamahabhuta, and in the Chinese cosmological and physiological system Wu Xing.

The Wu Xing, ( 五行 wŭ xíng ) also known as the Five Phases, the Five Agents, the Five Movements, and the Five Steps / Stages, are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device, in many traditional Chinese fields.

In 307 BC, King Wuling of Zhao, the ancient Chinese ruler of the former State of Jin territory, ordered his military commanders and troops to adopt the trousers of the nomads as well as practice the nomads ' form of mounted archery to hone their new cavalry skills.

The adoption of massed cavalry in China also broke the tradition of the chariot-riding Chinese aristocracy in battle, which had been in use since the ancient Shang Dynasty ( c. 1600 BC-1050 BC ).

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

Despite the limitations imposed on ancient Chinese concubines, history and literature have examples of concubines achieving great power and influence.

Zhan Guo Ce was a renowned ancient Chinese historical work and compilation of sporadic materials on the Warring States Period compiled between 3rd century to 1st century BCE.

He believed that the reform of the civil service into a meritocratic system and the disappearance of the ancient Chinese nobility from the bureaucracy constituted a modern society.