Since the Northern Crusades Estonia became a battleground for centuries where Denmark, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Poland fought their many wars over controlling the important geographical position of the country as a gateway between East and West.

Since then the company has had a renewed success, with a number of new series, such as Crusades, La Légende des nuées écarlates, Les Épées de verre, Carthago and Le Manoir des murmures.

Since mosques form the center of Muslim communities, they are where Muslims go to both give zakat and, if necessary, collect it.

Since the Muslim calendar is based on 12 lunar months amounting to about 354 days, the Muslim New Year occurs about eleven days earlier each year in relation to the Gregorian calendar, with two Muslim New Years falling in Gregorian year 2008.

Since 960s the island had been under Muslim rule as the Emirate of Sicily, a state of the Fatimid Caliphate.

Since the 14th century the Deccan ( Southern Peninsular region of India ) was divided into two entities: on the one side stood the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate and on the other stood the Hindu kings rallied around the Vijayanagara Empire.

Since the Mongols employed Muslim engineers for the designing of the counterweight trebuchets, they were designated in Chinese historiography as the " Muslim " trebuchet ( hui-hui pao ).

Since Muslim religious foundations own the Dome and consider it particularly sacred such actions would inevitably lead to violence.

Since Muslim etiquette forbade their common presence, Hārūn had Ja ' far marry Abbassa on the understanding that the marriage was purely nominal.

Since the nineteenth century, many Muslims had aspired to uniting the Muslim ummah to serve their common political, economic, and social interests.

Since the political power shift in Western Europe ( Spain and Portugal ) from Muslim to Christian control, the Muslims naturally did not practice philosophy in Western Europe.

Since the tragedy of 9 / 11, Sunni Muslim terrorists have been attacking the Hazara community in southwestern Pakistani town of Quetta, home to some 500000 Hazara who fled persecution in neighbouring Afghanistan.

It operated as a Muslim seminary-internship and " workhouse " for all the poor of the city regardless of religion. Since 1922, the Imaret spaces were used to house refugees.

Since the 7th century, Jeddah has hosted millions of Muslim pilgrims from all over the world on their way to Hajj.

Since there was often a confluence of traditional African, Islamic and Mediterranean cultures, scholars have found that drawing distinct divisions between Muslim areas, ancient Egypt, the Mediterranean and indigenous black African societies makes little sense.

Since the questioner is a Muslim, Bahá ' u ' lláh uses verses from the Bible to show how a Christian could interpret his own sacred texts in allegorical terms to come to believe in the next dispensation.

Since Catholicism and Islam both allowed the marriage, on the basis that any children born to the union must be raised in their faith, Nicole and Taher argued over whether to raise " Noah " in the Catholic or Muslim faith.

Since 2004, in the city of Perm functioned modern Russia's first Muslim Cossack unit.

Since his election, El-Badawi has met with many prominent figures in Egyptian life, ranging from politicians, current members of parliament, Muslim and Coptic religious figures and even actors, actresses and football players.

Since appearing on the Ottoman flag, they were widely adopted by Muslim countries, and have become known as symbols of Islam, when in fact, they may be cultural symbols.

Since Imam Muhammad Jawad inherited the responsibility of Imamate at a very small age, people became suspicious of his ability to lead the Muslim Ummah.

Since the lifting of restrictions on political parties in 1985 a number of parties have used the name Pakistan Muslim League, but they have little real connection with the original Muslim League.

Since the beginnings of the Buddhist community, monks and nuns have had to commit themselves to Five Precepts of moral conduct.

Since they were essentially itinerant, they confided to the care of some of the better educated and highly respected converts the fixed necessary functions relating to the daily life of the community.

Since the advent of the Internet, the concept of community has less geographical limitation, as people can now gather virtually in an online community and share common interests regardless of physical location.

Since it would be impossible for the Bahá ' í Faith to unite the world if it were itself disunited, the role of the covenant as the guarantor of the unity of the Bahá ' í community becomes inextricably linked with the goal of world unity: " It is evident that the axis of oneness of the world of humanity is the power of the Covenant and nothing else.

Since the overwhelming majority of scientists accept the modern evolutionary synthesis as the best explanation of current data, the term is seldom used in the scientific community ; to say someone is a scientist implies acceptance of evolutionary views, unless specifically noted otherwise.

Since the mid-1980s, there are some overlaps in ideas and members with the computer security hacking community.

Since the 1960s, he has worked with public interest, consumer, family farm, environmental and community organizations at the local, state and national level.

Since its inception in 1857, the City Market has been one of the largest and most enduring public farmers ' markets in the midwest, linking growers and small businesses to the Kansas City community.

Since then, Labour Day has been not only a public holiday but also a day of mass community involvement around the country.

Since the mid-1980s, the donor community, led by the World Bank and the USAID, has recognized that Madagascar is one of the world's most unusual natural wonders.

Since the early 1970s, oral history in Britain has grown from being a method in folklore studies ( see for example the work of the School of Scottish Studies in the 1950s ) to becoming a key component in community histories.

Since Nokia opened the Qt source code to the community on Gitorious various ports have been appearing.

Since its publication, Rashi's commentary on the Torah is standard in almost all Chumashim produced within the Orthodox Jewish community.

Since the ongoing civil war of 2011, and associated killings and human rights abuses, Syria has been increasingly isolated from the countries in the region, and the wider international community.

Since 1928 Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan has held an annual Winter Carnival in mid-February, during which a large Snow Sculpture Contest takes place between various clubs, fraternities, and organizations in the community and the university.

Since leaving the Mayor ’ s Office in 2002, Dean has been involved in several community and environmental organizations, serving on the boards of:

Since then, the name Steenbeck has become widely known in the film editing community and more than 25, 000 machines are in operation around the world.

" Since no molecular experimental evidence has been presented in support of this theory, this theory is not accepted by the majority of the scientific community. l

Since Unreal came packaged with its own scripting language called UnrealScript, it soon developed a large community on the Internet which was able to add new mods ( short for " modifications ") in order to change or enhance gameplay.

Since the mid-twentieth century, there has been a significant increase in interest in Gregory's works from the academic community, which has resulted in challenges to many traditional interpretations of his theology.

Since " Muggle " refers to a person who is a member of the non-magical community, Muggles are simply ordinary human beings rather than witches and wizards.

Since social capital is readily available no matter the type of community, it is able to override more traditional queues for political engagement ( e. g., education, employment, civil skills, etc .…).

Since that time, Tallangatta has been a service centre for the local farming community, with a butter factory operating throughout much of the 20th century.

Since then, the fan community has made improvements that feature OpenGL-based, high-resolution graphics, support for Lua, a slew of internal structural changes allowing for more advanced 3rd party mods, and Internet-capable TCP / IP-based multiplayer ( whereas the original games had only featured AppleTalk-based LAN capabilities ).