Sufi influences in the region go back many centuries.

The growing influence of the U.S. was a constant concern for .

The prewar identity of the club is rooted in the establishment of Britannia Leipzig in 1899 and its successor TuRa Leipzig.

The earliest evidence of human habitation dates to the Upper Paleolithic period.

Joane is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal.

History of DES The origins of DES go back to the early 1970s.

The earliest evidence of civilization in Lebanon dates back more than seven thousand years, predating recorded history.

Its origins go back to the formation of the American branch of Decca Records in 1934.

Industry in Lebanon is mainly limited to small businesses that reassemble and package imported parts.

The most recent elections, held in 1992, reelected Dos Santos with 49 of the votes.

Peruvian artistic traditions date back to the elaborate pottery, textiles, jewelry, and sculpture of Pre Inca cultures.

In a widely shared post, researcher Benedito Memidji argued that the dress codes go back to the socialist government of the Cold War period.

British era buildings Much of the old buildings of the fort area and in other parts of the city date back to the British times, these include governmental, commercial buildings and private houses.

Etymology The Oxford English Dictionary offers no etymology, but gives examples dating back to the 16th century.

Unlike most Angkorian temples, Angkor Wat is oriented to the west scholars are divided as to the significance of this.

And Western multinationals are hardly immune from charges of such abuses in Africa (often stretching back many years).

The oldest evidence of burial customs in the Horn of Africa comes from cemeteries in Somalia dating back to the 4th millennium BCE.

History The first historical records on Aalst date from the 9th century, when it was described as the villa Alost , a dependency of the Abbey of Lobbes.

Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country and western.

Physique contests for women date back to at least the 1960s with contests like Miss Physique, Miss Body Beautiful U.S.A., W.B.B.G.

History The history of the city starts with the Rodovalho Railway, named after Col. Antônio Proost Rodovalho, owner of a factory in Alumínio.

History Early years Ian McCulloch began his career in 1977, as one third of the Crucial Three, a bedroom band which also featured Julian Cope and Pete Wylie.

In the XIV century, the tiara of Boniface VIII began to be called the Tiara of St. Sylvester, and became venerated and considered as a relic.

The U.S. Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War and was essentially disbanded as a separate entity shortly thereafter.

History Mathematical analysis formally developed in the 17th century during the Scientific Revolution, but many of its ideas can be traced back to earlier mathematicians.

The disrepute into which the political process has fallen, and the widespread cynicism about the motives of India s politicians, can be traced directly to the flawed workings of the parliamentary system.

In the Caucasus, the Tats are concentrated in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russian Dagestan and their origins are traced to Sassanid merchants who settled in the region.

Social structure Migration Period society The Lombard kings can be traced back as early as c. 380 and thus to the beginning of the Great Migration.

A system on a chip (SoC or SOC) is an integrated circuit in which all the components needed for a computer or other system are included on a single chip.

Legends of Terra Australis Incognita an unknown land of the South date back to Roman times and were commonplace in medieval geography, although not based on any documented knowledge of the continent.

History Banco Espírito Santo s origins began with the lottery, currency exchange, and securities business carried out by José Maria do Espírito Santo e Silva between 1869 and 1884.

The logistical preparations for the banknotes and coins go back to 1992 , when nobody knew what they would look like , and when the new currency did not even have a definitive name .

Many concepts and debates on technology, which shaped the Internet, date back to research commissioned by the United States government in the 1960s to build robust, fault tolerant communication via computer networks.

ISSUING EURO BANKNOTES AND COINS Euro banknotes and coins were put into circulation in 2002 , but the planning and preparation of their introduction goes back to the early 1990s .

Species of the family Thylacinidae date back to the beginning of the Miocene since the early 1990s, at least seven fossil species have been uncovered at Riversleigh, part of Lawn Hill National Park in northwest Queensland.

In order to translate one language into another, it was observed that one had to understand the grammar of both languages, including both morphology (the grammar of word forms) and syntax (the grammar of sentence structure).

Some of the earliest references include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47 5, Acts 27 42, Isaiah 25 11), Beowulf, and other sagas.

History The first movement of the white man in today Araucaria, dating back to the year 1668,period in which Domingos Rodrigues da Cunha received a land grant, donated by Captain Settler, Gabriel Lara, the strong man of Paraná that period.

Landmarks of the modern era, dating back to the establishment of Athens as the capital of the independent Greek state in 1834, include the Hellenic Parliament (19th century) and the Athens Trilogy, consisting of the National Library of Greece, the Athens University and the Academy of Athens.

For many euro area statistics , best estimates have been made for periods preceding the start of the series , in some cases to 1980 or even earlier , though such early data cannot be fully comparable with current data .

Economy and trade Discoveries of obsidian from far away locations in Anatolia and lapis lazuli from Badakhshan in northeastern Afghanistan, beads from Dilmun (modern Bahrain), and several seals inscribed with the Indus Valley script suggest a remarkably wide ranging network of ancient trade centered around the Persian Gulf.

Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle and Galen in the ancient Greco Roman world.

Demographics Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 11 civil parishes ( freguesias ) Abrunheira, Verride e Vila Nova da Barca Arazede Carapinheira Ereira Gatões e Montemor o Velho Liceia Meãs do Campo Pereira Santo Varão Seixo de Gatões Tentúgal Sports Montemor o Velho has one of the only international sized 2 km rowing lakes in Portugal.