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Malta, officially the Republic of Malta (Maltese: Repubblika ta' Malta), is a small an densely populated island nation comprising an archipelago of seven islands, three of which are inhabited. It is located in the Mediterranean Sea in Northern Africa just 93 km (58 mi) south of Sicily, giving the country a warm, Mediterranean climate, and 288 km (179 mi) to its south is North Africa. The nation's de facto capital city is the historic Valletta.

Trivia about malta

  • A 900-year-old organization expelled in 1798 was allowed to return to this island in 1998
  • Now independent, this island has been ruled by Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, French, and British
  • The national anthem of this small country is "Innu Malti"
  • After assaulting a fellow knight, Caravaggio fled this island
  • "Knightly" & daily:Valletta
  • Gozo is one of the islands of this Mediterranean country, once home to a famous group of knights
  • A devastating 17th c. plague epidemic on this island 58 miles south of Sicily killed 1 in 7 people
  • In a Christopher Marlowe play, Barabas is "The Jew Of" this island
  • The language of this island country whose capital is Valletta is a west Arabic dialect with some Italian
  • In April 1942 this whole Mediterranean island was awarded the George Cross for bravery
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On his fourth and final missionary journey, Saint Paul sailed from Caesarea to Crete & was then shipwrecked on this island the Bible calls Melita
  • This small Mediterranean island lends its name to a cat breed as well as a dog breed
  • The George Cross, awarded for bravery in World War II, appears on this island country's flag, seen here:
  • Valletta is the capital of this Mediterranean island
  • The people of this island nation south of Sicily use a Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet
  • Island country whose capital, Valletta, is named for a grandmaster who led the knights in 1565
  • In 1530 Holy Roman emperor Charles V gave this island nation to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem
  • Oddly enough, the cross in the corner of this Mediterranean island's flag is not the one named for it
  • Fancy dress & gaudy floats are the order of the day at a carnival in Valletta, this island nation's capital
  • Valletta
  • This island country uses the lira as its basic unit of currency
  • On his last trip to Rome, St. Paul was shipwrecked on Melita, believed to be this island south of Sicily
  • (Dennis Leary delivers the clue.) In the Crusades the knights of this Mediterranean island had to contend with fire-hurling Saracens; the FDNY later adopted their cross as a badge of honor
  • This once-British island naval fortress has been called the "Navel of the Mediterranean"
  • It's made up of three main islands & has a combined land area smaller than Philadelphia
  • About 60 miles south of Sicily is this island nation that was formerly a British colony
  • The Knights Hospitaller reigned until 1798
  • It's been ruled by the Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, Knights, France, Britain & since 1964, itself

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