Pala

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The word Pala can refer to many different things:

Contents 1 Places 2 History 3 People 4 Other

[edit] Places

• Pala, California, a town in the United States
• Pala, Chad, a town
• Pala (East Timor), a town on Atauro Island, East Timor
• Pala (or Palai), a town in Kerala, India
• Pala Commune, a rural municipality in Estonia
• Pala Lake, a protected wetland on Aunu'u, American Samoa

[edit] History

• Pala Empire, an empire of ancient Bengal on the Indian subcontinent
• Pala, the region in Anatolia during the Bronze Age which spoke the Palaic language; it was to the northwest of Hattusa on the other side of Mount Asharpaya

[edit] People

• Pala (tribe), a native California tribe

[edit] Other

• Pala (sword), a shorter kind of Turkish sword or kilij
• Pala, a fictional island in Island (novel), by Aldous Huxley
• Pala, the Italian word for "board"; in art can mean an altarpiece (pala d'altare)