The settlement predates the Domesday Book.

While the bay's formation as it is known today was not finalized until about 500 years ago (and is continuing to change), human settlement predates the current formation.

The Village of Parkdale was founded in 1879, but settlement of the area predated its foundation.

The settlement predates the neighbouring larger town of Berkhamsted .

The European settlement of Watervliet predated the creation of the town by almost 200 years.

Permanent settlement in the area predates the independent Republic of Texas and Texas statehood, but a community didn't begin to develop at the site until the 1890s.

These early European settlements are now within the limits of the city of New Orleans, though predating its official date of founding.

A settlement in Pembury almost certainly predates the Norman conquest, as the village church of St Peter is of Norman origin.

The use of the word street implies these settlements predate the Norman Conquest.

They stressed German title to the lands of Pomerania, Silesia and central Poland, saying that German settlement had predated Slav settlement.