:For the French pastry, see Bichon au citron
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The Maltese is undoubtedly ancient, and dogs of its type, with long hair and dropped ears, were associated in ancient Greek and Roman times with one of the two islands with the Roman name Melita (Malta or Mljet).
Bichón spent his final years in Pichilemu and at his home in El Tambo, a town located twenty kilometers east of San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, Cachapoal Province, where he died of cancer just four days after turning 81, on 18 May 2013, approximately at 06:10 local time (10:10 UTC).