Cazale (french: Casale) also Cazales, is a village in

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

. It is located in a mountainous region more than 70 kilometers from

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( , ; ht, Pòtoprens ) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is define ...

, 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 Zalewski (feminine: Zalewska, plural: Zalewscy) is a Polish surnames, Polish-language surname. Alternate spellings include Zelewski, Zaleski, Zeleski, Zalewska, Zalescy and Zaller The form ''Zalewski'' is the hypercorrection, hypercorrect form of ...

" (a popular Polish surname). The village is populated by descendants of Polish soldiers sent by Napoleon in 1802.

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Polish diaspora in North America Polish communities Populated places in Haiti {{Haiti-geo-stub