Pala

The word Pala can refer to many different things:

Places

• Pala, California, a town in the United States
• Pala Casino Resort and Spa, a casino located in Pala, California
• 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

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
• Pala a Small Riverside Town In Kerala,South India

People

• Pala (tribe), a native California tribe

Other

• Pala (sword), a shorter kind of Turkish sword or kilij
• Pala, a fictional island in Island (novel), by Aldous Huxley
• Pala, an Italian word meaning 'shovel, paddle, blade'; in art, it can mean an altarpiece (pala d'altare)
• Pala, in Sanskrit, a term meaning 'protector'. Can refer to a form of wrathful deity, in Buddhism.
• Pala, a folk-theatre form, native to Orissa, akined to jatra of Bengal.
• PALA (biochemistry), nickname for N-(Phosphonacetyl)-L-aspartate, a potent competitive inhibitor of the enzyme aspartate transcarbamoylase
• Pala, a fictional town in Far Cry 2

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