An area of 15 provinces along the western border of the Russian Empire stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. The Pale of Settlement (Rus. Cherta osedlosti) was almost the only region in the Czarist Empire in which Jews were allowed to settle permanently. It was the result of the Russian population policy to isolate certain population groups and limit their settlement to a specific region. The Pale of Settlement was not formally dissolved until the February Revo…