"historical ties with" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to past connections between two or more people, groups, or countries. For example, you could write: "The country has strong historical ties with its nearby neighbors."
We have historical ties with the people of Georgia, and historical ties with the Russians.
His schoolteachers frequently talked about the country's historical ties with Indonesia.
As a discipline, mineralogy has had close historical ties with geology.
In fact, the Aquitaine region has strong historical ties with England.
We also have many biological, social, cultural and historical ties with vertebrates.
Libya's strong historical ties with Britain could help British firms, says Marcus Courage of Africa Practice, a consultancy.
Far from the ice, Novak Djokovic wins his first French Open, completing the career Slam and keeping Rafael Nadal from breaking his historical tie with Bjorn Borg by winning his seventh title at Roland Garros.
Organized by the newspaper La Presse in Montreal, the surveys were conducted in Britain, France, Spain, Russia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Canada and Australia, a sampling of countries with strong historical ties or alliances with the United States.
Traditionally the Foreign Office tells reporters, sotto voce, that the governments of Latin America (and, importantly, these alliances now include Caribbean countries with historical ties to Britain) speak with forked tongues and do not really support the Argentinian claim to the Falklands.
A combination of these factors led Stalin to initially have been "both curious and suspicious about the only leader of a Communist regime in the Soviet bloc who escaped from any historical ties or contact with the Soviet Union".
Local foundations, most with historical ties to the company, came up with $80,000 for the event.
