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'''Casale''' (also '''Cazale''' or '''Cazales''') is a village in the Cabaret commune in the Arcahaie Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti.<ref>{{Google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Casale,+Haiti/@18.7990141,-72.3853773,1507m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x8eb7612f2362c59b:0xe00a67944cd7c81a|title=Location |accessdate=2 September 2014}}</ref>
It is located in a mountainous region around {{Convert|30|km|mi}} from Port-au-Prince, the capital. It is the main population center of the Polish community in Haiti, called ''La Pologne'' (Poland). The name ''Cazale'' may have originated as ''kay Zalewski'', meaning "home of Zalewski" (a popular Polish surname). The village is populated by descendants of Polish soldiers sent by Napoleon in 1802.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://haitikiskeyabohio.blogspot.com/2012/12/polish-descendants-in-haiti.html |title= 200 years away from home Polish descendants in Haiti |accessdate=7 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Arthur|first=Charles|title=Haiti: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture|date=2007|publisher=Interlink Books|location=New York|isbn=1566563593|page=[https://archive.org/details/haiti00char/page/7 7]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/haiti00char/page/7}}</ref>
==See also== *Cabaret, for a list of other settlements in the commune.
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Category:Populated places in Ouest (department) Category:Polish diaspora in North America Category:Polish communities {{Ouest-geo-stub}}