Bale can refer to any of the following:

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Places

• Basel, the Swiss city, for which the French name is Bâle
• Bale, Istria, Croatia
• Balé Province, Burkina Faso
• Bale Province, Ethiopia, a former province in Ethiopia
• Bale Zone in Oromia, Ethiopia
• Bale, Norfolk in England
• A fictional city The Legend of Dragoon for Playstation.

Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: , French: , Italian: ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest urban area as of 2003). ... Bale on the map of Croatia Bale (Italian: Valle) is a small town and municipality in Istria, Croatia. ... Balé is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso, with Boromo as capital. ... Bale is the name of two polities located in the southeastern part of modern Ethiopia The kingdom of Bale The earlier Bale was a Muslim tributary kingdom, between Ifat and Hadiya. ... Bale is one of the 12 Zones in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. ... The Legend of Dragoon is an RPG released for the PlayStation in Japan in 1999. ... The Sony PlayStation ) is a video game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. ...

People

• Christian Bale, Welsh actor
• Edward Turner Bale, English physician
• John Bale, English churchman and playwright
• Gareth Bale, Young Welsh footballer for Tottenham Hotspur F.C

Christian Charles Philip Bale (also known professionally as Christian Morgan Bale; born 30 January 1974) is a Welsh-born English[2][3] method actor who is known for his roles in the films American Psycho, Shaft, Equilibrium, The Machinist, Batman Begins and The Prestige, among others. ... Edward Turner Bale (1810 - October 9, 1849) was an English immigrant physician who built the Bale Grist Mill in Napa County, California. ... John Bale John Bale (21 November 1495–November, 1563) was an English churchman, historian and controversialist, Bishop of Ossory. ... Gareth Frank Bale (born July 16, 1989 in Cardiff) is a Welsh football player, currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur. ... Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is a North London football club. ...

Industrial packaging

• Hay bale or straw bale, in farming, bound by a baler
• Paper bale, a unit of paper measurement equal to ten reams
• A compressed package of any one of a variety of textiles, such as

• Wool bale
• Cotton

A round baler A baler is a piece of farm machinery that is used to compress a cut, raked, crop (such as hay or straw) into bales and bind the bales with twine. ... A straw bale is a bundle of straw tightly bound with twine or wire. ... A round baler A baler is a piece of farm machinery that is used to compress a cut, raked, crop (such as hay or straw) into bales and bind the bales with twine. ... A paper bale is a quantity of sheets of paper, currently standardized as 5000 sheets. ... A sealed pack of diced pork from Tesco. ... A wool bale is a package of wool typically compressed by mechanical means. ... Cotton ready for harvest. ...

Other

• Akar-Bale language
• bale, an archaic synonym for evil
• bale, a bale of turtles, which is a group of turtles.
• to "bale out" is to exit an airborne aircraft while wearing a parachute (presumably from the resemblance of a backpack parachute to a hay bale). Also spelled bail (as in exiting an untenable situation.)

Akar-Bale or Bale is an extinct Central Great Andamanese language once spoken in the Andaman Islands. ... For other uses, see Evil (disambiguation). ... The Apollo 15 capsule landed safely despite a parachute failure. ... The word bail can have these meanings:- See bail and wikt:bail for security (usually a sum of money), exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that persons appearance for trial by a lawcourt, and related meanings. ...

See also

• Bail, a homophone of "bale"

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