Pale - Historical Pales

Historical Pales

  • The Pale, or the English Pale, English crown territory in Ireland from the 13th to the 16th centuries
  • Pale of Calais, English territory in France from 1360 to 1558
  • Pale of Settlement, area of restricted Jewish settlement in the western Russian Empire from 1791 to 1917
  • The Chinese Pale, the area of Han Chinese settlement in Liaoning, bounded in the early Qing dynasty by the Inner Willow Palisade

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