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Malta (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 35 55 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 35.9167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 014 25 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 14.4167 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises 3 islands in strategic location in Mediterranean; inhabited since 3800 BCE; ruled by Carthaginians (8th century BCE), Rome (until 395), Constantinople, Arabs (870) and Normans (1091); ceded to Hospitalers (Knights of St. John) in 1530; British by 1802; official languages are Maltese (a Semitic language of the Southern Central group) and English. |
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| Malta (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Malta (Malagasy)
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| Malta (Maltese-P,U,N)
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| Malta (Indonesian)
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| Malta (Azerbaijani)
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| Malta (Croatian)
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| Malta (Bosnian)
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| Malta (Latvian)
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| Malta (Danish)
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| Malta (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Malta (Finnish)
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| Malta (Swedish)
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| Malta (Polish)
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| Malta (Portuguese)
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| Malta (Romanian)
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| Malta (Slovak)
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| Malta (Slovene)
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| Malta (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Malta (Catalan)
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| Malta (Basque)
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| Malta (Welsh)
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| Malta (Hausa)
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| Malta (German)
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| Malta (Breton)
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| Malta (Czech)
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| Malta (Dutch)
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| Malta (Afrikaans)
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| Malta (Galician)
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| Malta (Icelandic)
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| Malta (Faroese)
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| Malta (Italian-P,U,N)
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| Malta (Lithuanian)
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| Malta (Estonian)
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| Malta (Greenlandic)
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| Malta (Turkish)
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| Malta (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Malta (Romansh)
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| Malta (Kikuyu)
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| Malta (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Malta (North Ndebele)
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| Malta (Shona)
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| Malta (Swahili (generic))
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| Repubblika ta'Malta (C,V,O,Maltese,U,N)
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| Republic of Malta (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Malta, Republic of (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Maltese Islands (C,V)
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| Malte (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Malte (Fulah)
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| République de Malte (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Malta (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Мальта (C,O,Russian-P,U)
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| Мальта (Ukrainian)
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| Мальта (Belarusian)
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| Республика Мальта (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 马耳他 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 马耳他共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| ما طًة (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً ما طًة (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| MLT (C,O,ISO3L)
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| MT (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO470 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Maltese (C,O,English,U,A)
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| מלטה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| i-Malta (C,U,Zulu)
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| Insula Malta (C,U,Romanian)
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| Isla de Malta (C,U,Spanish)
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| Maalda (C,U,Somali)
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| Malitɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Malita (C,U,Rundi)
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| Malita (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Malita (Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Malite (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Málta (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Málta (Irish Gaelic)
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| Málta (Northern Sami)
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| Mâlta (C,U,Sangho)
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| Malta Island (C,U,English)
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| Malta nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Malta saar (C,U,Estonian)
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| Maltë (C,U,Albanian)
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| Malti (C,U,Bambara)
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| Malto (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Man-ta (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Mɔlta (C,U,Akan)
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| Orílẹ́ède Malata (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Pulau Malta (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Repubblika ta’ Malta (C,U)
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| State of Malta (C,U)
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| Μάλτα (C,U,Greek)
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| マルタ (C,U,Japanese)
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| マルタ島 (C,U,Japanese)
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| ማልታ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ማልታ (Amharic)
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| Մալթա (C,U,Armenian)
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| ມັນຕາ (C,U,Lao)
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| 몰타 (C,U,Korean)
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| مالت (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Малта (C,U,Serbian)
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| Малта (Macedonian)
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| Малта (Bulgarian)
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| มอลตา (C,U,Thai)
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| माल्टा (C,U,Marathi)
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| माल्टा (Hindi)
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| माल्टा (Nepali)
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| مالطة (C,U,Arabic)
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| ម៉ាល់តា (C,U,Khmer)
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| மால்டா (C,U,Tamil)
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| მალტა (C,U,Georgian)
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| ମାଲ୍ଟା (C,U,Odia)
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| مالطا (C,U,Arabic)
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| মাল্টা (C,U,Bengali)
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| མལ་ཊ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| මෝල්ටාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| ماڵتا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| مالٹا (C,U,Urdu)
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| మాల్టా (C,U,Telugu)
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| മാള്ട്ട (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ಮಾಲ್ಟಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| માલ્ટા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| Sovereign State of Malta (H,V)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Additional Parents: |
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Malta (nation) |
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Malta (nation) |
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Malta (nation) (P) |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence from Britain on September 21, 1964 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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established in 1974 |
| island nation (C) |
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| municipium (H) |
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after coming under Roman control in 218 BC |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Valletta .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Europe, Malta, Valletta) [7005732] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1964 |
| member of .... |
European Union .......... (union) |
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(World, Europe) [7030305] |
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since 2004 |
| member of .... |
Euro Zone .......... (union) |
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(World, Europe) [7033130] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1964 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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[BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, IMJ, VP] |
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Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 653 |
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Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 664 |
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Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 390-391 |
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Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 559; 2:559 |
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Cassell's French Dictionary (1981) 308 |
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Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961) |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 744-745 |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 2562770 |
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ISO Country Codes (1996) 17 |
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ISO Handbook (1988) 781 |
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Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.) |
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National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-) |
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NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998) |
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Petit Robert II, Noms (1989) |
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Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 83 |
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Times Concise Atlas of the World (1995) I-58 |
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UN Terminology Bulletin 345 (1993) 66 |
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UN Terminology Bulletin 347 (1997) 23 |
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USBGN Bulletin 19 (1999) 1 |
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Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 719 |
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Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 719 |
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Wikipedia (2000-) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B0 |
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