The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

The oldest such document still known to exist seems to be the Code of Ur-Nammu of Ur ( ca 2050 BC ).

The oldest known document in Maltese is " Il Cantilena " ( Maltese: Xidew il-Qada ) a poem from the 15th century written by Pietro Caxaro, and the first known Maltese dictionary was written by the French Knight Francois de Vion Thezan Court in 1640.

* 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi ( Austria in Old High German ).

Linguistically, the text is the oldest document written in a Romance language, and specifically in a form of French.

The oldest known document using punctuation is the Mesha Stele ( 9th century BC ).

According to the website of the Archives, the oldest surviving document dates back to the end of the eighth century.

The oldest extant document written in Romanian is Neacșu's letter ( 1521 ).

This view is confirmed by the " Prague Fragments " and by certain Old Glagolitic liturgical fragments brought from Jerusalem to Kiev and there discovered by Saresnewsky — probably the oldest document for the Slavonic tongue ; these adhere closely to the Latin type, as is shown by the words " Mass ," " Preface ," and the name of one Felicitas.

To the Austrian emperor he promised recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a document designed to guarantee inheritance of the Austrian throne to Maria Theresa, Charles ' oldest child.

It is not known when Yiddish came to be written down, but the oldest surviving literary document in Yiddish is a blessing in the Worms mahzor, a Hebrew prayer book from 1272 ( with a scalable image online at the indicated reference ; described extensively in Frakes, 2004 and Baumgarten / Frakes, 2005 ):

It is the oldest known document that mentions Bucharest by name.

* The oldest document mentioning the city of Ferrara is from this year ( approximate date ).

Neacşu's Letter, the oldest surviving document written in Romanian has the oldest appearance of the word " Rumanian "

* The oldest surviving printed document, a Buddhist scripture, is printed in Korea.

Other scholars, however, both Western and Muslim, argue that the text of the agreement -- whether a single document originally or several -- is possibly one of the oldest Islamic texts we possess.

* The Congregatio Regni tocius Sclavonie Generalis with its decisions ( statuta et constitutiones ), is the oldest surviving document written by the Croatian parliament.

* November 1 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi ( Austria in Old High German ).

The oldest mention of a village called Jordi de Sassaro is in an 1131 document in the archive of the Monastery of St. Peter in Silki.

As H. C. Darby noted, anyone who uses it " can have nothing but admiration for what is the oldest ' public record ' in England and probably the most remarkable statistical document in the history of Europe.

The oldest document referring to Groningen's existence dates from 1040.

The Freising manuscripts ( also Freising folia, Freising fragments, or Freising monuments ;,, or ) are the first Latin-script continuous text in a Slavic language and the oldest document in Slovene.

The oldest document of the proto-literate period is the Kish tablet.

The oldest flute ever discovered may be a fragment of the femur of a juvenile cave bear, with two to four holes, found at Divje Babe in Slovenia and dated to about 43, 000 years ago.

The oldest known polar bear fossil is a 130, 000 to 110, 000-year-old jaw bone, found on Prince Charles Foreland in 2004.

A few houses and cemeteries still bear witness to the Dutch origins of the borough of Brooklyn, including the oldest house of New York City, the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Flatlands.

A small primitive bear called Ursus abstrusus is the oldest known North American fossil member of the genus Ursus, dated to 4. 95 mya.

The oldest traces of humans in the Lucerne area are stone artifacts and cave bear bones found in the Steigelfadbalm cave on Mt.

In the film, an Inuit boy pursues a bear in revenge for a battle that he provoked in which his oldest brother is killed.

All are considered to bear the same or similar connotation and have been used interchangeably by Muslim scholars throughout the ages, Ahl al-Hadeeth possibly being the oldest recorded term used to describe the earliest adherents while Ahl as-Sunnah is overwhelmingly used by Muslim scholars, including Salafis as well as others, such as the Ash ' ari sect, leading to a narrower use of the term " Salafi ".

As part of the contacts with the Near East, the reliefs from his funerary monuments also hold the oldest known representation of a Syrian bear.

Further out of the city, the parishes of St John, St Luke, St Peter and St Matthew, in the Parramatta, Liverpool, Campbelltown and Windsor areas respectively, have Anglican churches which bear the same saints names ; St John's in Parramatta ( opened 1803 ); St. Luke's in Liverpool ( building began 1818 ); St. Peter's in Campbelltown ( opened 1823, the third oldest Anglican church in Australia ); and St. Matthew's in Windsor ( consecrated in 1822 )

Akatora (" Red tiger "), the oldest of the three, is killed in the final battle ; he sacrificed himself to take out Akakabuto's left eye, leaving the bear totally blind.

Dutch law has made branding illegal, so today only the oldest Dutch Warmbloods from the Netherlands still bear the lion-rampant brand on the left hip.

According to the modern rules of taxonomy, each new proposed genus that is split off from Epidendrum must bear the name of the oldest generic epithet published for a member of the new genus.

The first family to bear the surname ( for which written records survive ) are said to have lived in the area prior to William the Conqueror's Norman conquest of England, with the oldest surviving written document placing them in Dykesfield at the end of the reign of Henry III.

Even today, the oldest books in the early American colleges oftentimes bear the bookplate of a literary society.

The Chāndogya Upaniṣad, dated to the 8th or 7th century BCE, one of the oldest Upanishads, has the earliest evidence for the use of the word ahimsa in the sense familiar in Hinduism ( a code of conduct ).

Arithmetic or arithmetics ( from the Greek word ἀριθμός, arithmos " number ") is the oldest and most elementary branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple day-to-day counting to advanced science and business calculations.

The oldest documented use of the word " tennō " is on a wooden slat, or mokkan, that was unearthed in Asuka-mura, Nara Prefecture in 1998 and dated back to the reign of Emperor Temmu and Empress Jitō.

This word has been used as an epithet of various Vedic deities, like Varuna, and has been attested in the Holy Rig Veda, possibly the oldest compiled book among the Indo-Europeans.

The English word fart is one of the oldest words in the English vocabulary.

Beit Lehi also contains the oldest known Hebrew writing of the word “ Jerusalem ” It's written as the inscription “ I am YHWH thy Lord.

While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself is the New Latin form ontologia, which appeared in 1606, in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard ( Lorhardus ) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolf Göckel ( Goclenius ); see classical compounds for this type of word formation.

One of the oldest records of the word samba appeared in Pernambuco magazine's O Carapuceiro, dated February 1838, when Father Miguel Lopes Gama of Sacramento wrote against what he called the samba d ' almocreve – not referring to the future musical genre, but a kind of merriment ( dance drama ) popular for black people of that time.

The oldest result relating algebraic structure to solvability of the word problem is Kuznetsov's theorem:

Although traces of this figure are still evident in the oldest texts of both India and Iran, in both cultures the word eventually appears as the epithet of other divinities.

It was one of the oldest regiments in the regular army, hence the archaic spelling of the word Welch instead of Welsh.

In the West, the oldest Greek and Latin inscriptions use word dividers, but these are rare in the later periods when scriptio continua becomes the norm ( in Classical Greek and late Classical Latin ).

The oldest mention of the word " troubadour " as trobadors is found in a 12th century Occitan text by Peire d ' Alvernhe.

In the oldest examples of uncial, such as the De bellis macedonicis manuscript in the British Library, all of the letters are disconnected from one another, and word separation is typically not used.

According to José Pedro Machado ’ s Dicionário Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa, the oldest known document where this Portuguese word is to be found is Gil Vicente ’ s play Comédia de Rubena, written in 1521:

The oldest use of the word pisco to denote Peruvian aguardiente dates from 1764.

The oldest known name is Isca ; the word is likely Celtic in origin, and translated means ' Water '.

The oldest meaning of the common word was "( the one ) in front ; the foremost, the leading " and here in the sense " the island in front of Hitra ".

However, the oldest reference to Diwali is a related word, dipalikaya, which occurs in Harivamsha-Purana, written by Acharya Jinasena and composed in the year 705.

In some of the oldest mosques, such as the Great Mosque of Damascus, minarets originally served as illuminated watchtowers ( hence the derivation of the word from the Arabic nur, meaning " light ").