Pale may refer to:

Jurisdictions

* Medieval areas of English conquest: **

Pale of Calais The Pale of Calais was a territory in northern France ruled by the monarchs of England from 1347 to 1558. The area, which centred on Calais, was taken following the Battle of Crécy in 1346 and the subsequent Siege of Calais (1346–47), Siege o ...

, in France (1360–1558) **

The Pale The Pale ( Irish: ''An Pháil'') or the English Pale (' or ') was the part of Ireland directly under the control of the English government in the Late Middle Ages. It had been reduced by the late 15th century to an area along the east coast s ...

, or the English Pale, in Ireland *

Pale of Settlement The Pale of Settlement was a western region of the Russian Empire with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 (''de facto'' until 1915) in which permanent settlement by Jews was allowed and beyond which the creation of new Jewish settlem ...

, area of permitted Jewish settlement, western Russian Empire (1791–1915)

Geography

Africa

Palé Palé is a town and sub-prefecture in the Nzérékoré Prefecture in the Nzérékoré Region of Guinea Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea, is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Guinea- ...

, town in Guinea *

San Antonio de Palé San Antonio de Palé, formerly known as St Antony, São Antonio de Praia and Palea, is the capital of Annobón (an island in Equatorial Guinea that was once part of the Spanish Empire in Africa). The town has 600 inhabitants, the majority of who ...

, town on Annobon Island, Equatorial Guinea

Asia

* Burma **

Pale, Myanmar Pale () is a town
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Pale Township Pale Township is a township in Yinmabin District in the Sagaing Division of Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwe ...

*India ** Pale, Dahanu, village ** Pale, Goa, census town

Europe

Pale (Greece) Pale () or Paleis (Παλείς) or Παλαιέων πόλις was an ancient Greek city in ancient Cephalonia. Two hundred of its citizens fought at the battle of Plataea against the Persians. Later, just before the commencement of the Pelopon ...

, 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 ''The Silent Force'' is the third studio album by Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation, released on 15 November 2004, by GUN Records. On 5 August 2008, ''The Silent Force'' along with ''Mother Earth (Within Temptation album), Mother Eart ...

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 ''Disco Elysium'' is a 2019 role-playing video game developed and published by ZA/UM. The game was written and designed by a team led by Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz and executive producer Kaur Kender, featuring an art style based on oil pain ...

Other uses

Pale (heraldry) In heraldry and vexillology, a pale is a charge consisting of a band running vertically down the centre of a shield or flag. Writers broadly agree that the width of the pale ranges from about one-fifth to about one-third of the width of the shie ...

, a vertical mark running down the centre of a flag or shield *Pálē (in Greek: πάλη), the Greek name for ancient

Greek wrestling Greek wrestling (), also known as Ancient Greek wrestling and Pále (πάλη), was the most popular organized sport in Ancient Greece. A point was scored when one player touched the ground with his back, hip or shoulder, or conceding defeat due ...

Palisade A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall. Palisades can form a stockade. Etymo ...

, a fence made from ''paling'', sticks or logs sharpened on one end into "pales" with the other on or embedded into the ground *

Pallor Pallor is a pale color of the skin that can be caused by illness, emotional shock or stress, stimulant use, or anemia, and is the result of a reduced amount of oxyhaemoglobin and may also be visible as pallor of the conjunctivae of the eye ...

, a paleness of the skin