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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