Malta

About Malta

Malta packs millennia of history into a small Mediterranean archipelago south of Sicily, at Europe's crossroads with North Africa. Its fortified capital, Valletta, was built by the Knights of St John after the Great Siege of 1565, and honey-colored limestone towns overlook harbors that have sheltered Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, and the British. Prehistoric temples older than the pyramids dot the islands.

• ·Malta's megalithic temples, such as Ġgantija, are older than Stonehenge and Egypt's pyramids, ranking among the world's oldest free-standing structures.
• ·Malta's flag bears the George Cross, awarded to the entire island by Britain's King George VI for bravery during World War II.
• ·Maltese is the European Union's only official Semitic language, though it is written in the Latin alphabet.

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