Pale

Pale (Пале) is a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located northeast of Sarajevo. Pale was the official capital of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian war.

In the census of 1991, the municipality of Pale had 16,310 residents: 11,269 Serbs, 4356 Bosniaks, 394 Yugoslavs, 126 Croats and 165 others. Today there are about 30,000 inhabitants, mostly Serbian refugees from Sarajevo.