The largest of the three inhabited islands of the Maltese archipelago in the central Mediterranean.
Geography
Malta is a low limestone island roughly 27 km long, with cliffs along the southern coast and natural harbors on the north. It lies 81 km south of Sicily and 290 km north of Libya, on a strategic axis through the central Mediterranean.
History
The island contains some of the world’s oldest free-standing stone structures, the Ġgantija temples on Gozo dated to roughly 3600 BCE. Malta was ruled in turn by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, the Knights of Saint John, France, and Britain before independence in 1964.
Culture
Maltese, the only Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet, is co-official with English. Valletta, founded by the Knights of Malta in 1566, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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