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Description	English: Map showing the percentage of Jews in the Pale of Settlement and Congress Poland (Original caption without the red line). Citations YIVO Encyclopedia, "The Pale did not include the provinces of the Russian-controlled Congress Poland." JewishFamilySearch.com, "Congress Poland did not belong to the Pale of Settlement." Jewish Virtual Library, "Vistula Region (lands of Congress Poland) was not officially included within the Pale of Settlement." A.S. Lindemann (1997 book, page 61), "Technically, Congress Poland was not part of the Pale (a point not often understood), but most of the extensive territories to the east and south of Congress Poland, once ruled by Poland (Lithuania, Byelorussia, the Ukraine), were included in it." ISBN 0521795389
Date	1905
Source	Herman Rosenthal; J.G. Lipman; Vasili Rosenthal; L. Wygodsky; M. Mysh; Abraham Galante (1905) "Russia" in The Jewish Encyclopedia: Vol. 10, Philipson–Samoscz, New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls, pp. 531
Author	Not specified in source.
Other versions	png (with minimal inscriptions, quasi "language-neutral") svg (in German)

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:54, 12 August 2020	3,404 × 4,504 (1.01 MB)	Valp	Same as the previous one, but cropped and souce added between [ ] at the bottom
	09:49, 12 August 2020	3,626 × 5,642 (1.28 MB)	Valp	High definition (3404 x 4504) of the original, scanned from the printed edition for Archive.org
	09:42, 30 August 2018	530 × 642 (115 KB)	Nihil scimus	Original version as of 10:26, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
	09:41, 30 August 2018	447 × 366 (211 KB)	Nihil scimus	Since the concordant sources & similar maps, easier to read and without controversed changes
	07:28, 11 November 2017	530 × 642 (168 KB)	Mathiasrex	Reverted to version as of 19:59, 30 September 2017 (UTC) cause Congress Poland was not a part of Pale of Settlement
	18:07, 3 November 2017	533 × 646 (364 KB)	Claude Zygiel	The Pale of Settlement was an Eastern limit (red). The Western one was the border of the Russian Empire (green).
	17:54, 3 November 2017	530 × 642 (115 KB)	Claude Zygiel	Reverted to version as of 17:31, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
	18:56, 2 November 2017	530 × 642 (168 KB)	Sandstein	No idea who's right, but don't omit the red line, it highlights the area
	17:31, 21 October 2017	530 × 642 (115 KB)	MAXHO	To avoid editing conflicts, reverted to version as of 10:26, 16 November 2005 (UTC): Poland has a jewish population !
	19:59, 30 September 2017	530 × 642 (168 KB)	Mathiasrex	Reverted to version as of 12:48, 9 October 2010 (UTC) Cingress Poland was not a part of Pale of Settlement