- Pala
The word Pala can refer to many different things:
Places
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Pala, California , a town in the United States
*Pala, Chad , a town
*Pala (East Timor) , a town onAtauro Island , East Timor
*Pala (orPalai ), a town in Kerala, India
*Pala Commune , a rural municipality in Estonia
*Pala Lake , a protected wetland onAunu'u , American SamoaHistory
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Pala Empire , an empire of ancient Bengal on the Indian subcontinent
*Pala, the region in Anatolia during the Bronze Age which spoke thePalaic language ; it was to the northwest of Hattusa on the other side of Mount Asharpaya
*Pala a Small Riverside Town In Kerala,South IndiaPeople
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Pala (tribe) , a native California tribeOther
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Pala (sword) , a shorter kind of Turkish sword orkilij
* Pala, a fictional island in "Island" (novel), byAldous Huxley
* Pala, the Italian word for "board"; in art can mean analtarpiece ("pala d'altare")
* Pala, in Sanskrit a term meaning 'protector'. Can refer to a form ofwrathful deity , inBuddhism .
* PALA (biochemistry), nickname for N-(Phosphonacetyl)-L-aspartate, a potent competitive inhibitor of the enzyme aspartate transcarbamoylase
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