The Empire had made claims as to its own historical foundations.

Minnesota's geologic resources have been the historical foundation of the state's economy.

These legendary recording sessions are often considered the historical foundation for country music.

It has been suggested, without great historical foundation, that this was a Danish settlement.

In Lithuania's case, the detaching did not have any historical foundation.

Straight has given this body of work a historical foundation, a point of reference in the past.

The 17th century ballad about a murder in Shropshire was the historical foundation for the play.

Another is to regard it merely as a parable whose historical foundation can be ignored.

When passing along "traditional" information that lacks a historical foundation, Bede takes care to note it as such.

He believed that a modern national superstructure could only endure if based on solid historical foundations.