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20 unusual facts about Malta


Anton Buttigieg

He was educated at the Government Primary School, Qala (from 1916 to 1922), the Gozo Seminary (from 1923 to 1927), St Aloysius' College Malta (from 1928 to 1930) and the University of Malta, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1934, and Doctor of Laws in 1940.

Bidnija

Archaeologists and Researchers also believe some Roman remains (e.g. Roman villas; tombs) can be found nearby, as Bidnija makes part of the rural surroundings of Rabat (Mdina), which served as a City in those ages, and also is not far from Salina coast which was a Roman harbour in the past.

Bulgarian Soft Drink Association

Products of Bulgarian companies, manufacturers of soft drinks, are sold in USA, UK, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Malta, and Cyprus, all Balkan countries, in Russia, Ukraine, Africa, Middle East, and Latin America.

Coryse Borg

Coryse Borg is a Maltese actress, director and writer, resident in Żebbuġ, Malta.

Gareth Sciberras

Gareth Sciberras (born 29 March 1983 in Pietà, Malta) is a professional footballer currently playing for Birkirkara in the Maltese Premier League, where he plays as a midfielder.

Gianluca Bezzina

Gianluca's maternal grandfather, the late Gaetano Buttigieg of Marsa, Malta, better known as Gaetano Kanta, was also a very well-known figure in Malta.

Giovanni Francesco Abela

In the early 17th century Abela converted his house at Marsa to a historical museum, the first on Malta.

Glenn Bedingfield

Glenn Bedingfield (b. 15 November 1974, Pietà, Malta) is a Maltese journalist and formerly a Member of the European Parliament and General Secretary of the Forum Żgħażagħ Laburisti (the Labour Youth Forum of the Maltese Labour Party) and member of the Party's National Executive.

Hibernians Ground

Hibernians Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Paola, Malta.

Immanuel Mifsud

Immanuel Mifsud (born September 12, 1967) is a writer of poetry and prose, born in Paola, Malta.

Louis Briffa

Briffa received his education at the Precision Engineering Centre, Marsa (1990–1991) and at the Technical Institute, George Grognet De Vasse, Naxxar (1992).

Maan Karate

The film will be shot in Chennai, Bangalore and Athirapally during the first schedule and a couple of songs will be shot at Malta.

Malcolm Licari

Malcolm Licari (born 18 April 1978 in Pietà, Malta) is a professional footballer currently playing for Rabat Ajax in the Maltese Premier League, where he plays as a striker, and also occasionally as a defender.

Maltese heraldry

The coat of arms of Malta was created in the 20th Century but has an older history.

Paceville

At around the same time, a number of bars and clubs started to open in the area in view of the increasing number of British servicemen and tourists living in St. Julian's, St. Andrew's and Pembroke.

Saint Joseph's Day

However, the city of Rabat celebrates the traditional Maltese feast on the 19th of March, where in the evening a procession is also held with the statue of St Joseph.

Salina Catacombs

The Salina Catacombs are a cluster of small catacombs located near the Church of the Annunciation in Salina, Naxxar, in Malta.

St. Luke's Hospital, Malta

Luke's Hospital (in Maltese: Sptar San Luqa), was a general hospital located on Gwardamanġia hill, in Pietà, Malta.

The Sleeping Lady

This figurine is held in the Museum of Archaeology, in Valletta, Malta.

Twistees

Twistees are produced by Darrell Lee Foods at a factory in Marsa which was originally established by Ray Calleja.


2007–08 Maltese Premier League

The Malta Football Best Goalkeeper of the Year award for 2008 was won by Andrew Hogg of Valletta.

Airspeed Consul

The Consul saw service with small scheduled and charter airlines as feeder liners in Great Britain, and also Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, East Africa and Canada, and was the first type operated by Malayan Airways, the predecessor of Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines.

Alexander Clifford

In June 1940 the Sunderland flying ship in which he was being transported beached near Malta to avoid sinking.

Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici

Carmelo "Carm" Mifsud Bonnici (born 17 February 1960) is a Maltese politician who served in a number of Ministerial posts in the Government of Malta.

Charles Camilleri

Camilleri was born in Ħamrun and, as a teenager, had already composed a number of works based on folk music and legends of his native Malta.

Da Da Dam

The entry was performed in the first semifinal in the tenth position, following Eldrine from Georgia with "One More Day" and preceding Malta's Glen Vella with One Life.

De Bono

Edward de Bono, a Malta-born British physician, author, and consultant

Diane Borg

Diane Borg (born September 12, 1990 in Pietà, Malta) is a Maltese sprinter.

Doyles Room

Named for Doyle Brunson, the 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, the Doyle Brunson Poker Network is licensed and incorporated in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles with the website also stating "Letter of Intent from Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority Received".

EgyptAir Flight 648

The United States protested to Malta about the U.S. personnel sent to resolve the issue having been confined to Air Squadron HQ and the U.S. Embassy in Floriana.

Filfola Lizard

This subspecies is found on the three main islands: Malta, Gozo and Comino.

Francis Douglas

Francis Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch (1889–1980), MP from Battersea North and Governor-General of Malta

GHAR

Għar Dalam, a prehistorical cul de sac located on the outskirts of Birżebbuġa, Malta

Giovanni Francesco Abela

Abela was born in Valletta to Marco Abela and Benarda Vella whose great great grandfather was Barone di Pietra Lunga and whose ancestors ruled Malta on more than one occasion and were part of the royal family of Spain.

Harpalus anxius

In Europe, it is only absent in the following countries or islands: Andorra, the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Crete, Cyclades, Cyprus, Dodecanese, the Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Iceland, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean islands, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Portugal, San Marino, the Savage Islands, Sicily, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.

History of religion in Malta

A Jewish subculture re-emerged in Malta during the reign of the Knights Hospitaller.

HMVS Childers

Later that month, she was in Malta on her delivery voyage to Victoria with HMVS Albert and HMVS Victoria when news of General Gordon's death at Khartoum arrived.

Il-Foss

The Zabbar Ground better known by its nickname Il-Foss is a football ground in Ħaż-Żabbar, Malta.

Independence Ground

Independence Ground is a multi-use stadium in Floriana, Malta.

Innico Maria Guevara-Suardo

During his lieutenancy he also worked hard to get the British government to return complete control of Malta to the Order, which they were unwilling to do even after the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

Jacob Lekgetho

He was capped 25 times for the South African national team, making his international debut in a 1-0 win over Malta in May 2000 and playing his last match for Bafana Bafana in a 3-0 World Cup Qualifying defeat to Ghana in Kumasi on 20 June 2004.

Joseph Muscat

As an MEP he supported a reduction in the tax for Satellite television, the right for customers to watch sport events for free, and a number of issues related to environmental protection in Malta.

Julen Guerrero

Among Guerrero's personal international highlights were hat-tricks against Malta (3–0 in Attard, on 18 December 1996) and Cyprus (8–0, 8 September 1999).

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014

It will also be the third time in the history of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest that the event will be hosted by the previous year's winning country, after Malta won the 2013 edition in Kiev, Ukraine, with the song "The Start" by Gaia Cauchi.

Kaplan International Colleges

KIC also offers short, medium and long-term residential foreign language courses in China, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Russia and Spain through partner schools.

Karl Schembri

Fellow Maltese writer and critic Mario Azzopardi (born in 1944 in Ħamrun Malta) describes Schembri as 'a pioneer in his generation that has assaulted his nation that is lubricated on hypocrisy, nepotism and corruption.

Lawrence Gonzi

Malta’s support for the Libyan revolution has been appreciated by the country’s new rulers and the chairman of the Transitional National Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, has already made it clear that Malta will have a “distinguished role” in the rebuilding of Libya.

LGBT rights in Malta

There are a few gay clubs including 'Tom Bar', situated in Floriana, which is the oldest gay club in Malta, and 'Monaliza' in Paceville and Valletta.

Malta Colony

During the Second World War, Ugo Pasquale Mifsud and George Borg Olivier were the only remaining Nationalist members of parliament of Malta.

Maurice Henry Dorman

Sir Maurice Henry Dorman, GCMG, GCVO (7 August 1912 – 26 October 1993) was the representative of the British Monarchy in Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Sierra Leone, and Malta.

MT explosive motorboat

On 26 July 1941, two human torpedoes (Maiale) and ten MAS boats (including six MTs) launched an unsuccessful attack on the British naval base at Valletta, Malta.

Nina Silaeva

# 2011 — the Personal exhibition of works in Russian center of a science and culture on Malte in Vallette, July 2011

Norman Harding

During a holiday in Sliema, Malta, he proposed marriage to her on 3 June 1988, and were married on 5 August of the same year, when Harding was 58-years-old.

Olivia Lewis

At her 11th attempt she finally won the 2007 festival, held in Ta'Qali on 3 February 2007, with the song "Vertigo" and represented Malta at the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 May 2007.

Paceville

Located west of St. Julian's, Malta, Paceville (sometimes abbreviated PV) is the name given to an informal district heavily populated with nightclubs, bars, pubs and restaurants, and is an important nightlife hub on the island.

Peg Belson

These contacts included Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Malta, Finland, West Germany, Denmark, Japan, China, Kuwait, the Czech Republic, Poland and Bosnia.

Penny Lernoux

It also dissected various groups struggling for control of the church and examined the popularity of Opus Dei, Communion and Liberation, the Knights of Malta and Tradition, Family and Property.

Piero de Ponte

He became a Knights Hospitaller and was the Order's governor of the island of Lango when Rhodes fell to the Ottomans on New Year's Day 1523, and was still there in 1534 when he received the news of his election to the office of Grand Master of the Order, to succeed Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam at Malta.

Pierre J. Mejlak

He was a BBC correspondent, a regular columnist for Malta's daily In-Nazzjon and produced radio shows - including 60 one-hour documentaries on rock legends - for various national radio stations.

Renzo Spiteri

He is the musical director and drummer/percussionist of the Maltese folk band Walter Micallef u l-Ħbieb, and works very closely with Contact Dance Company (Malta), writing music and performing live on stage with the company in Malta and across Europe.

Robert Samut

On 26 May 1968 Dr. Giorgio Borg Olivier, then Prime Minister of Independent Malta, in the presence of the Governor General and Lady Dorman, of His Grace Mgr Michael Gonzi, and many other personalities, unveiled a marble plaque on the façade of the Lion House to commemorate the birthplace of Prof. Samut.

Ron Angus

Commonwealth Championships: 1993 Ireland (3rd), 1995 Malta (3rd)

Royal Malta Golf Club

The Royal Malta Golf Club was founded in 1888 by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry D’Oyley Torrens KCB KCMG.

Three villages of Malta

Attard, Balzan, and Lija are three small villages located near the centre of the Mediterranean island of Malta.

Verdala Palace

Verdala palace was restored by Governor Sir William Reid by 1858 and was the official summer residency of the Governors of Malta during British rule.

Violeta Chamorro

Chamorro was the first elected female head of state in the Americas, the second in the Western Hemisphere after Iceland's Vigdís Finnbogadóttir and the fifth in the world after the elections of Agatha Barbara in Malta, Elisabeth Kopp in Switzerland and Corazon Aquino in the Philippines.

Walter Micallef u l-Ħbieb

Walter Micallef u l-Ħbieb is a modern folk sextet from Malta, featuring Walter Micallef on vocals and guitar, Renzo Spiteri on percussion, Jes Psaila on acoustic and electric guitar, Eric Wadge on bass, Pawlu Camilleri on harmonica and Albert Garzia on piano and accordion.

Wignacourt

Wignacourt towers, series of fortifications on the island of Malta built by the Knights of Malta

William Howard Russell

Initially sent by editor John Delane to Malta to cover British support for Russia in 1854, Russell despised the term "war correspondent"—though his coverage of the conflict brought him international renown, and Florence Nightingale later credited her entry into wartime nursing to his reports.

Zefta

Zefta is well known in the modern Egyptian history during the 1919 uprising, lately called Egyptian Revolution of 1919, when the British occupation expelled Saad Zaghloul Pasha out of Egypt along other leaders of Wafd Party and were exiled to Malta, the people of Zefta, led by Youssef El Guindi, gathered and declared their independence of the crown and named it Zefta Republic.