As a legend, this story relates to the founding of the culture.

This account now is thought by some historians to be mostly legendary, although essentially the underlying story of a rebelling mercenary force may be accurate, and the date for the founding of the kingdom of Kent is thought to be approximately the middle of the fifth-century, in agreement with the legend.

According to the legendarium recorded in the 12th-century Gesta Treverorum, the city was founded by an eponymous otherwise unrecorded Trebeta, an Assyrian prince, placing the city's founding legend centuries before and independently of ancient Rome: a medieval inscription on the facade of the Red House in Trier market,

The wolf, feeding the twins Romulus and Remus, probably the most famous legend of the founding of the city.

The founding of Rome can be investigated through archaeology, but traditional stories handed down by the ancient Romans themselves explain the earliest history of their city in terms of legend and myth.

The legend of the founding of Tenochtitlan as feature in Mexico's coat-of-arms

The image of the she-wolf suckling the divinely fathered twins became an iconic representation of the city and its founding legend, making Romulus and Remus preeminent among the feral children of ancient mythography.

Joan is often identified as the countess of Salisbury who, legend says, inspired Edward III's founding of the Order of the Garter.

The Sabines divided into two populations just after the founding of Rome, which is described by Roman legend.

Older books about Alfred the Great include the legend, for example: Jacob Abbott's 1849 Alfred the Great says that " One of the greatest and most important of the measures which Alfred adopted for the intellectual improvement of his people was the founding of the great University of Oxford.

According to legend, the name Karlsruhe, which translates as Charles ’ repose, was given to the new city after a hunting trip when Margrave Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, woke from a dream in which he dreamt of founding his new city.

The legend of the founding of St. Marie says that thirty-two families from the area of Montreal, Canada, mostly newlywed or single came up the St. Lawrence River in search of farmland on the prairie.

Within the writing of Nennius is a sense of pseudo-nationalist pride attempting to legitimize the people of Britain and embellish the past through legend much as the Romans used the story of Romulus and Remus to legitimize the founding of Rome.

According to the founding legend of the annual giant Easter omelette of Bessières, Haute-Garonne, when Napoleon Bonaparte and his army were traveling through southern France, they decided to rest for the night near the town of Bessières.

In the local legend of the town's founding " St. Ronan Cleik't the Deil by the hind leg and banished him ", possibly a metaphor for the monks bringing Christian learning back into these regions.

See, for example, the legend of Romulus and Remus and the founding of Rome.

The town's coat of arms, granted in 1819, is parted fesswise between Stavelot's founding bishop, and the wolf which in Stavelot's founding legend carried bricks for the building of the Abbey.

The myth of a Trojan founding with Greek influence was reconciled through an elaborate genealogy ( see Latin kings of Alba Longa ) with the well-known legend of Rome's founding by Romulus and Remus.

Mr. Pogue was described by author James Parry as " a name synonymous with the pioneering giants who played a pivotal role in transforming international civil aviation ... into the cohesive global force that it is today ... Pogue is truly a living legend and a founding father of the international civil aviation system.

In a similar way, the French Renaissance author Jean Lemaire de Belges ( in his Les Illustrations de Gaule et Singularités de Troie ) linked the founding of Celtic Gaul to the arrival of the Trojan " Francus " ( i. e. Astyanax ), the son of Hector ; and of Celtic Germany to the arrival of " Bavo ", the cousin of Priam ; in this way he established an illustrious genealogy for Pepin and Charlemagne ( the legend of " Francus " would also serve as the basis for Ronsard's epic poem, " La Franciade ").

It appears independently in Babylonian mythology and in the coat of arms and flag of Mexico after an Aztec legend on the founding of Tenochtitlan.

This is the earliest extant record of the Dangun legend, which records the founding of Gojoseon as the first Korean nation.

* 1122 BC — Legendary founding emigration of Gija to Gojoseon.

North Korea dates Dangun's founding of Gojoseon to early 30th century BC.

From 1945 until 1961 in South Korea, Gregorian calendar years were counted from the foundation of Gojoseon in 2333 BCE ( regarded as year one ), the date of the legendary founding of Korea by Dangun, hence these Dangi ( 단기 / 檀紀 ) years were 4278 to 4294.

The earliest written record on Gojoseon has been found in Shang-Shu-Da-Zhuan, recording the founding history of Gija Joseon which is established by Chinese Shang dynasty descendants in 12th century BCE.

In Gojoseon, where the founding myth of Korea is recorded, there is a story of a tiger and a bear who wanted to reincarnate in human form and who ate wormwood and garlic.

The first two scenarios are about the founding of the state of Gojoseon and its first contacts with other Korean states and China, followed by scenarios about Korea's first wars with the Chinese and other Korean states.

From 1952 until 1961, years were numbered in Dangi in South Korea, counting from the legendary founding of Gojoseon in 2333 BC.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Although Albert has received relatively little recognition in German history, his dissolution of the Teutonic State caused the founding of the Duchy of Prussia ( and also the Hohenzollern dynasty ), which would eventually become arguably the most powerful German state and instrumental in uniting the whole of Germany.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

* 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.

Many stories have developed since the founding long ago to become a part of America's folklore and cultural awareness, and non-native American folklore especially includes any narrative which has contributed to the shaping of American values and belief systems.

On the basis of these traditions, the churches in question often claim to have inherited specific authority, doctrines and / or practices on the authority of their founding apostle ( s ), which is understood to be continued by the bishops of the see ( seat ) or throne of the church that each founded and whose original leader he was.

This historical founding was traditionally dated to 654 BC, which is unverified, although evidence in 7th century BC Greek pottery tends to support it.

There is a particularly strong tradition of them in southern New Zealand's main city Dunedin, of which Burns ' nephew Thomas Burns was a founding father.

In 1629, Winthrop had led the signing of the founding document of the city of Boston, which was known as the Cambridge Agreement, after the university.

Carl Meinhof was the great-uncle ( the brother of the grandfather ) of Ulrike Meinhof, a founding member of the German Red Army Faction ( RAF ), a left-wing militant group, which operated in West Germany in 1970s and 1980s.

Later national myth made Kenneth MacAlpin the creator of the kingdom of Scotland, the founding of which was dated from 843, the year in which he was said to have destroyed the Picts and inaugurated a new era.

Frankiel claims that these founding myths are " structurally equivalent " to the creation myths in other religions, because they are " the pivot around which the religion turns to and which it returns ", establishing the " meaning " of the religion and the " essential Christian practices and attitudes ".

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

When she returned east in 1913, she joined Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and others in founding the militant Congressional Union, which became the National Woman's Party.

Two founding documents emerged from this: The Transition Constitution, and the Global and Inclusive Agreement, both of which describe and determine the make-up and organization of the Congolese institutions, until planned elections in July 2006, at which time the provisions of the new constitution, democratically approved by referendum in December 2005, will take full effect and that is how it happened.

Knuth was one of the founding editors of the Engineering and Science Review, which won a national award as best technical magazine in 1959.

** Nazarov was Dictator of the Don Republic ( which before, since its founding on 2 December 1917 at Novocherkassk, had been governed by a Triumvirate including the last pre-Soviet Ataman, Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin ) from 11 February 1918 till 25 February 1918 when Bolshevik troops ended their existence

The Disciples continues to relate to the National Council of Churches, of which it was a founding member.

Just as important, Thompson was, with Ken Coates, Mary Kaldor and others, an author of the 1980 Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament, calling for a nuclear-free Europe from Poland to Portugal, which was the founding document of European Nuclear Disarmament.

Taxpayer revolts, leading to cuts in funding for public education in many states, have led to the founding of an unprecedented number of independent schools, many of which have progressive philosophies.

He also was influential in the founding of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in teaching, which not only contributed important research on teaching but also influenced the teaching of important educational psychologists.

The post-war period also saw growth of the ecumenical movement and the founding of the World Council of Churches, which was generally regarded with suspicion by the evangelical community.