Prior to the rise of Kizzuwatna, the heart of that territory in Cilicia was first referred to by the Hittites as Adaniya.

Prior to independence, the French establishment and Catholic Church feared Opangault's radicalism and favored the rise of Fulbert Youlou, a former priest.

Prior to the rise of the fast food chain restaurant, people generally had a choice between greasy spoon diners where the quality of the food was often questionable and service lacking, or high-end restaurants that were expensive and impractical for families with children.

Prior to these changes, The Independent had a daily circulation of around 217, 500, the lowest of any major national British daily, climbing to claim a 15 % rise by March 2004 ( to 250, 000 ).

Prior to the recent rise in MPEG-4 encoding in consumer devices, a progressive scan form of M-JPEG also saw widespread use in the “ movie ” modes of Digital Still Cameras, allowing video encoding and playback through the integrated JPEG compression hardware with only a software modification.

Prior was interviewed about the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory!

Prior to the rise of Athens, Sparta considered itself to be the leader of the Greeks, or hegemon.

Prior to her husband's rise to power, Maria Amalia and her husband had to cope with a persistent money problem due to the fact that they had no income aside from that which they were given by the English crown.

Prior to the rise of Theravada Buddhism, both Indian Brahmanic religion and Mahayana Buddhism were present in Thailand.

Prior to the rise of social media networks, K-Pop concerts and related events outside East and Southeast Asia were mostly unheard of.

Prior to no-till farming's rise in popularity, the annual tilling of the soil often exposed arrowheads and other artifacts.

'" Prior to his rise to prominence as a writer, he was best known as the line editor for Andrew Rev's incarnation of Comico.

Prior to the rise of suburban shopping malls and in the 1970s, the Roslindale business district, Roslindale Square, was a major shopping district for the city of Boston, with department stores, showrooms, food markets, and a movie theatre.

Prior to the rise of Saladin, Egypt was the center of the Shia Fatimid Caliphate, the only period in Islamic history when a caliphate was ruled by members of the Shia branch of Islam.

Prior to his son's rise to fame, Poe had been known simply as ' Fernando Poe '.

Prior to the rise of Christianity, certain " homosexual " practices had existed among certain groups, with some degree of social acceptance in ancient Rome and ancient Greece ( e. g. the pederastic relationship of an adult Greek male with a Greek youth, or of a Roman citizen with a slave ).

Prior to the rise of video games, Sega produced arcade games that resemble video games, but were in fact electro-mechanical games that used rear image projection in a manner similar to the ancient zoetrope to produce moving animations on a screen.

Prior to the rise of Reza Khan, Khaz ' al had never attempted to separate his sheikhdom from Qajar Persia, to which he had maintained staunch loyalty.

Prior to the rise of classical economics in the eighteenth century, the economies in Europe and its North American colonies were governed by a variety of ( formal and informal ) regulations designed to prevent " greed " from overcoming " morality ".

Prior to the 2008 – 09 season, a Rivals. com writer called Drew the Big 12 " coach on the rise ", due to Drew's success in recruiting talent to Baylor.

Prior to the Elkins Act, the livestock and petroleum industries paid standard rail shipping rates, but then would demand that the railroad company give them rebates.

Prior to the advent of the railroad in the second half of the nineteenth century, the town's location on the river made for a thriving community ; it is reputed to have been the largest town between Chicago and Terre Haute at the height of its success.

Prior to the arrival of the railroad, founder Daniel Sumrall operated a grist mill along Mill Creek.

Prior to the opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1893, Capron, Oklahoma was first known as " Warren ", a small cattle station on the main line of the Santa Fe railroad.

Prior, a district railroad surveyor and townsite agent, was given credit for naming Bristol in 1881.

Prior, the superintendent of the railroad, named the town Woonsocket after his home town of Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

Prior to the construction of the railroad in 1883, Moab was a strategic place to cross the Colorado River.

Prior to 1890, the station was named Twin Wells after the two wells that were drilled to water the railroad employees.

Prior to this development, people relied on either private wells or the railroad well at Mesa.

Prior to the American Civil War, Mogadore served as a station on the underground railroad.

Prior to Tullahoma or the railroad, the area was settled by farmers.

Prior to Midland's becoming a railroad village, a community named Garmon existed in the area and appears on an 1864 map of North Carolina.

Prior to July 2010, the ten blocks between 46th Street and 56th Street were without the city's usual pedestrian crossing signals and overhead traffic lights because the railroad tunnel ceiling, which is also the street, is not thick enough for their poles ' foundations.

Prior to the Accutron, that movement affected the precision of all wristwatches to a degree which precluded railroad certification, even for the best made and most expensive chronometer certified wristwatches.

Prior to the establishment of the railroad in the late 1850s, the stagecoach route was called the " Hound Dog Trail.

Prior to 1857, the railroad industry was booming due to vast migrations of people to the west, especially in Kansas.

Prior to 1845, transportation of inland mail, other than by railroad or steamboat, was given to bidders who offered stage or coach service.

Prior to 1910 the railroad constructed its major locomotive repair shops in Battle Creek and rail car repair and maintenance was handled by GTW ’ s Port Huron car shops.

Prior to the railroad being the Carrabelle, Tallahassee, and Georgia Railroad, it was the Thomasville, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad, and later the Augusta, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad Company.

Prior to the Bridge of Lions in 1925, there was a wooden bridge, called simply, " The Bridge to Anastasia Island " or " South Beach railroad bridge ".

Prior to the American Civil War, the city's access to the Canadian border made it a key stop along the underground railroad.

Prior to 1872, its main lines were the Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Company ( C & A ), the first railroad in New Jersey and one of the first in the U. S., and the New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company ( NJRR ), the first railroad across the New Jersey Palisades.

Prior to the railroad bridge's opening in 1930, the railroad used a ferry between Benicia and Port Costa, California.