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Malta’s Megalithic Temples

18 Jan 202319 Jan 2023
MALTA’s MEGALITHIC TEMPLES - part 1 Why were they built? Introduction There are on the Maltese islands some 26 megalithic sites, that are known as having been used as places…
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MALTA in the 19th CENTURY

22 Sep 202222 Sep 2022
  BRITISH MALTA During the 19th century   The early years The British hoisted the Union Jack for the first time in Malta at Bieb il-Bombi, Floriana, once the French were…
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How Coffee Gained Popularity in Malta

6 Jul 202230 Aug 2022
The History of Coffee in Malta The coffee plant knows its origins in Ethiopia. During the fifteenth century, the plant began to be cultivated in Yemen and Saudi Arabia where coffee was roasted…
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EARTHQUAKES and TSUNAMIS

19 May 20222 Sep 2022
Earthquakes and Tsunamis in and around Malta It is not uncommon for earth tremors to be felt in the Maltese islands. Many pass unnoticed and are only registered by the University’s seismic measuring…
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MALTA AS SEEN BY FOREIGNERS

28 Apr 202231 Aug 2022
MALTA as seen by  foreigners Malta, located as it is in the centre of the Mediterranean served many a time as a haven that provided a momentary respite for voyagers…
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CART RUTS

11 Feb 202213 Feb 2022
  THE CART RUTS of  Malta   Among the large number of archaeological and prehistoric sites all over Malta and Gozo, none remain more mysterious than the fifty or so conglomerations of cart ruts,…
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The COLD WAR and MALTA

2 Dec 202131 Aug 2022
   The  COLD WAR From Yalta to Malta Intro ... The many decades following the Second World War were years full of international political  tension, caused mainly by the animosity…
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The BATTLE of LEPANTO

7 Oct 20212 Feb 2022
Battle of Lepanto 1571 and the Order of St John   Today is the 450th anniversary of the battle of Lepanto that took place on October 7, 1571. The battle…
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THE GREAT SIEGE – 1565

7 Sep 20212 Feb 2022
How great was the Great Siege of 1565 ? The decision by the Sublime Porte to attack Malta was taken in October, 1564. By the early months of 1565, De…
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GĦAR DALAM – Malta’s prehistoric cave

30 Jul 202121 Nov 2021
    Għar Dalam Malta’s Prehistoric Cave    Għar Dalam, the so-called 'Cave of Darkness', is located in the South East of Malta, just a couple of kilometres away from…
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NEO-CLASSICAL architecture in 19th century MALTA

18 Jun 20218 Aug 2022
Interest in Neo-classicism started in ernest as from the second half of the 18th century, especially after the discoveries of Pompeii and Herculaneum. All over Europe, but especially in Britain…
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SEA TRANSPORT BETWEEN THE HARBOUR TOWNS (1830’s)

27 May 20212 Feb 2022
  In his Histoire de Malte, (published in 1841), Dominique Miège, the French Consul for Malta, gives a detailed description of the sea borne communication system that existed in the Grand…
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Transport in early British Malta (c. 1830 – 1840)

20 May 20212 Feb 2022
TRANSPORT in MALTA in the EARLY BRITISH PERIOD as recounted by Dominique Miège (1841) Dominique Miège was the resident French Consul to Malta in the early 1830's and must have…
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How the Maltese made merry in the 19th century

29 Apr 20212 Feb 2022
  Throughout the 19th century, the Maltese folk hardly had anything to feel happy about. What with a large percentage of them employed only sporadically, and hundreds others begging in…
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MALTA’s BLITZ – APRIL 1942

9 Apr 20212 Feb 2022
MALTA’s WAR   THE APRIL BLITZ OF 1942   The ‘Battle for Malta’ in World War II commenced on June 10, 1940, once Mussolini declared war on France and Britain. Malta, then a British…
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Women in Maltese Folklore

31 Mar 20212 Feb 2022
  WOMEN in MALTESE FOLKLORE  Myth or Cultural Legacy  by Rita Saliba *    If we think of folklore as customs and traditions, it takes us back to distant times when…
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CHURCHILL and MALTA

12 Mar 20212 Feb 2022
In his dispatch of 5 June 1941 to Malta’s Governor, General Dobbie, Churchill stated: ‘You may be sure we regard Malta as one of the master-keys of the British Empire’.…
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Lord Byron and Malta

5 Feb 20212 Feb 2022
  Amongst the many illustrious visitors who set foot on Malta throughout the 19th century there were some very distinct men of letters. Whether their stay was a brief one…
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MAGI, KINGS or WISE MEN ?

24 Dec 20202 Feb 2022
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DECEMBER – Events in Maltese History

4 Dec 20202 Feb 2022
Aktar artikli mill-istess awtur  ...  https://kliemustorja.com/ 1818 December 16    The first investiture into the newly established Order of Merit set up by the British Monarchy in April 1818, took place inside…

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