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Pale (disambiguation)
- The Pale or the English Pale comprised a region in a radius of 20 miles around Dublin which the English in Ireland gradually fortified against incursion from Gaelic Ireland.
- Pale as a term for an area of restricted settlement also appears outside Ireland: notably in the western portions of Tsarist Russia, once designated as the "Jewish Pale" - see Pale of Settlement.
- In heraldry, a pale is a vertical ordinary and per pale a vertical division of the field.
- In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Pale (two syllables) is a small town on the outskirts of Sarajevo that was the official capital of the Republika Srpska, although in practice this distinction always belonged to the current capital, Banja Luka
- A term of appearance, see pallor
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