Pale (Serbian Cyrillic: Пале) is a municipality of the city of Istočno Sarajevo, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Pale always represented an important junction between east and west that is the Sarajevo Valley and the Drina River basin.

The feudal house of Pavlović belonged to the upper crust of the Bosnian aristocracy, their holdings extended from Vrhbosna (today's Sarajevo) on the West to Dobruna on the east.

Pavle Radenović, the founder of the Pavlović line, aside from his ancestral holdings around Pale also owned the mines in Olovo, the city of Trebinje, and parts of Konavle and Cavtat.

[1] After the fall of Bosnia the feudal holdings of the House of Pavlović were divided into 11 districts, and renamed the entire area the "Pavli Vilayet.

Due to the harsh conditions in which the local Christian population found itself, there is very little data about the urban development during the Ottoman rule of this area in the Middle Ages.

[1] Captain Husein did not wait for the Sultan to answer their demands and appointed himself the Vice Roy of Bosnia, alienating many of his supporters in the process.

The railway link enabled Pale to continue to grow and prosper with foreign investment making it possible to open several additional mills in the town.

48 adult men were separated from the rest of the group and executed by pistol-shot, while the remaining refugees were forced into detention camps.

[1] With the end of the war and the absorption of Bosnia into the newly created Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the town of Pale once again struck out towards growth.

The cultural and sport society "Soko" was responsible for a large level of participation by Pale's inhabitants in their athletic programs.

A significant number of intellectuals as well as affluent and influential people from Sarajevo and other places in the country constructed summer homes in Pale.

On 15 April, a German motorized division would occupy Sarajevo and capture the Yugoslav Supreme Military command in the town of Pale itself.

During the summer of 1941 the first massacres occurred, the villages of Njemanici and Bjelogorica were completely destroyed and more than sixty people were murdered.

The occupation forces tried to brutally suppress this revolt and during the month of August more than 75 prominent town folk were arrested and deported to death camps.

After 45 men out of that village reported to the Ustaše administration for the issuance of new identification documents they were all arrested and in pairs of two were chained to each other.

Once the surviving witnesses, Milan Starčević, residing today in Pale, testified: "After they say that a part of the village inhabitants was missing the Ustashe sent out search parties and came to the Alija Hill.

The next day Milan Starčević's brother went with German troops back to bury the victims of the Ustashe massacre.

During World War II in the municipality of Pale more than 1200 civilians were murdered, while another 350 resistance fighters were killed in the fighting.

After World War II, the town and municipality of Pale, thanks to the tireless efforts of the local population, slowly recover and resume their economic development.

With the development of the metal industry there are significant migration into the town, the suburb of Koran is built out with new building and apartment complexes constructed.

During 1991 and 1992, as the tensions rose in the run up to the Bosnian War, the Pale region became an administrative center of the nascent anti-Sarajevo and pro-Serb Republika Srpska.

It would remain a center of activity for the Serb forces during their Siege of Sarajevo which led to the deaths of more than 10,000 people and the wounding of 56,000 (including 15,000 children).

Several high ranking Serb commanders in control of forces from the region, including General Stanislav Galić were sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for crimes against the people of Sarajevo where a campaign of unrelenting violence against the inhabitants was led.

The town became the nominal administrative headquarters of the Bosnian Serb government, while Banja Luka became the de facto capital.

Some of Sarajevo Serbs settled in Pale, leading to significant population growth of the city (in relative terms).

[3] The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2018):[4] There are more than 30 logging and wood production mills in the Pale municipality.

During August and September 2002, through the initiative of the Faculty of Philosophy in Pale 500 metres (1,640 ft) of the total length of the passages with the most beautiful cave ornaments were made accessible for tourist visits.

Because of its scientific and aesthetic characteristics the cave is destined to become the focus of the research and educational projects of the Faculty of Philosophy in Pale.

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