Malta

Republic of Malta

The Union's smallest state, Malta speaks a Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet — a distillation of a thousand years of Mediterranean encounters.

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The Acts of the Apostles recount Paul's shipwreck on the island around AD 60: Malta claims one of Europe's oldest Christian communities. The temples of Ġgantija, older than the pyramids, are among the world's oldest stone monuments; Valletta is a fortress city conceived in the sixteenth century as a total work of art.

Geschichte

Inhabited since the Neolithic, Malta was Phoenician, Carthaginian then Roman. The shipwreck of Saint Paul planted Christianity there very early. After Arab rule, which bequeathed the language, the island passed to the Normans of Sicily.

In 1530 Charles V entrusted it to the Order of Saint John. The Great Siege of 1565, in which a few thousand knights repelled the Ottoman army, made Malta a European symbol; Valletta was built in its wake.

British from 1800 to 1964, the island was the most bombed naval base of the Second World War. Independent in 1964, a republic in 1974, Malta joined the Union in 2004 and the euro in 2008. It is today the southern frontier of the Schengen area.

Meilensteine

3600 v. Chr. Antike

Megalithic temples

Ġgantija and Ħaġar Qim are built a millennium before the Egyptian pyramids.

60 Christianisierung

Shipwreck of Saint Paul

The Acts of the Apostles recount the Maltese welcome: Christianity takes root at once.

870 Mittelalter

Arab period

Two centuries of Aghlabid rule give Maltese its Semitic base.

1565 Renaissance und Reformationen

The Great Siege

The Order of Saint John repels the Ottoman army; all Europe follows the siege.

1942 Zeitgeschichte

George Cross

King George VI decorates the entire island for its endurance under bombardment.

1964 Zeitgeschichte

Independence of Malta

Malta leaves the British Empire and becomes a republic ten years later.

2004 Europäischer Aufbau

Accession of Malta to the Union

The smallest member state joins the EU and adopts the euro four years later.

2004 Europäischer Aufbau war beteiligt

The big bang enlargement

Ten states, eight of them formerly communist, join the Union: the continent’s division ends.

Politische Landschaft

Ergebnisse der Europawahl vom Juni 2024 und ihre Übersetzung in Fraktionen des Europäischen Parlaments.

PL — Partit Laburista 3
PN — Partit Nazzjonalista 3

Verteilung der europäischen Sitze

Fraktion der Progressiven Allianz der Sozialdemokraten im Europäischen Parlament 3
Fraktion der Europäischen Volkspartei (Christdemokraten) 3

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