Pale Explained

Pale may refer to:

Jurisdictions

• Medieval areas of English conquest:
  • Pale of Calais, in France (1360–1558)
  • The Pale, or the English Pale, in Ireland
• Pale of Settlement, area of permitted Jewish settlement, western Russian Empire (1791–1915)

Geography

Africa

• Palé, town in Guinea
• San Antonio de Palé, town on Annobon Island, Equatorial Guinea

Asia

• Burma
  • Pale, Myanmar, town
    • Pale Township India
  • Pale, Dahanu, village
  • Pale, Goa, census town

Europe

• Pale (Greece), ancient town in Kefalonia, today part of Lixouri, Greece
• Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a town and municipality
• Palé, Hungary, a village
• Pāle parish, Latvia
• Pale River, Estonia
• Pale-Prača, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a municipality

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

• Pale (album), a 1990 release of Toad the Wet Sprocket
• Pale (band), an Australian band formed in 1991
• The Pale (band), an Irish band formed in 1990
• The Pale, renamed The Pale Pacific, an American indie rock band
• The Pale (EP), by William Control
• "Pale", a track by Within Temptation from The Silent Force

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Pale (Greyhawk), the Theocracy of the Pale, a fictional nation in the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game
• Pale Rider (1985), an American western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood
• The Pale, an otherworldly location in Disco Elysium

Other uses

• Pale (heraldry), a vertical mark running down the centre of a flag or shield
• Pálē (in Greek: πάλη), the Greek name for ancient Greek wrestling
• Palisade, a fence made from paling, sticks or logs sharpened on one end into "pales" with the other on or embedded into the ground

See also

• Pail (disambiguation)
• Paleness (disambiguation)
• Beyond the Pale (disambiguation)