Pale of Settlement
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The Pale of Settlement (Russian:Черта́ осе́длости, chertá osédlosti, Yiddish:דער תּחום-המושבֿ, der tkhum-ha-moyshəv, Hebrew:תְּחוּם הַמּוֹשָב, tcḥùm ha-mosháv) was a western region of Imperial Russia, in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish permanent residency was generally prohibited. It extended from the eastern pale, or demarcation line, to the western Russian border with the Kingdom of Prussia (later the German Empire) and with Austria-Hungary.