Pale of Settlement

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The Pale of Settlement was a western region of the Russian Empire with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 in which permanent residency by Jewish subjects was allowed, and outside of which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, was mostly forbidden.

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Image: Central Statistical Committee of the Russian Empire, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.