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Maltese Falcon Masts
Maltese may refer to: * Someone or something of, from, or related to Malta * Maltese alphabet * Maltese cuisine * Maltese culture * Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people * Maltese people, people from Malta or of Maltese descent Animals * Maltese dog * Maltese cat * Maltese goat * Maltese tiger Other uses * Maltese cross * Maltese (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) See also * *The Maltese Falcon (other) The Maltese Falcon may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''The Maltese Falcon'' (novel), detective novel by Dashiell Hammett published in 1930, and its film adaptations: ** ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1931 film), starring Ricardo Cortez and direct ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two official languages are Maltese language, Maltese and English language, English. The country's capital is Valletta, which is the smallest capital city in the EU by both area and population. It was also the first World Heritage Site, World Heritage City in Europe to become a European Capital of Culture in 2018. With a population of about 542,000 over an area of , Malta is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, tenth-smallest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population density, ninth-most densely populated. Various sources consider the country to consist of a single urban region, for which it is often described as a city-state. Malta has been inhabited since at least 6500 BC, during the Mesolith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese Alphabet
The Maltese alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet with the addition of some letters with diacritic marks and Digraph (orthography), digraphs. It is used to write the Maltese language, which evolved from the otherwise extinct Siculo-Arabic dialect, as a result of 800 years of independent development. It contains 30 letters: 24 consonants and 6 vowels (a, e, i, o, u, ie). There are two types of Maltese consonants: * (Sun and moon letters, sun consonants): ''ċ d n r s t x ż z'' * (Sun and moon letters, moon consonants): ''b f ġ g għ h ħ j k l m p q v w'' Samples Older versions of the alphabet Before the standardisation of the Maltese alphabet, there were several ways of writing the sounds peculiar to Maltese, namely , , , , , , and . was formerly written as (in front of and , in Italian fashion). Vella used for . was used in other books during the 19th century. Rather than using a c with a cedilla, , Panzavecchia used a c with ogonek . ''A Short Grammar of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese Cuisine
Maltese cuisine reflects History of Malta, Maltese history, showing strong Italian cuisine, Italian influences, as well as influences from Spanish cuisine, Spanish, French cuisine, French, Provençal cuisine, Provençal and other Mediterranean cuisines, with some later British cuisine, British culinary influence. Being positioned along important trade routes, having to import most of its foodstuffs, and having to cater for the resident foreign powers who ruled the islands opened Maltese cuisine to outside influences. The traditional Maltese stewed rabbit, , is often identified as the national dish. History Malta's history and geography, at the center of trade routes, had an important influence on its cuisine. Foreign dishes and tastes were absorbed, transformed and adapted.Billiard, E. (2010), Searching for a National Cuisine', Journal of Maltese History, Vol. 2, No. 1 Italian cuisine, Italian (specifically Sicilian cuisine, Sicilian), Middle Eastern cuisine, Middle Eastern and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese Culture
The culture of Malta has been influenced by various societies that have come into contact with the Maltese Islands throughout the centuries, including neighbouring Mediterranean cultures, and the cultures of the nations that ruled Malta for long periods of time prior to its History of Malta#Independence, independence in 1964. History The culture of prehistoric Malta The earliest inhabitants of the Maltese Islands are believed to have been Sicani from nearby Sicily who arrived on the island sometime before 5000 BC. They grew cereals and raised domestic livestock and, in keeping with many other ancient Mediterranean cultures, formed a mother goddess, fertility cult represented in Malta by statuettes of unusually large proportions. Pottery from the earliest period of Maltese civilization (known as the Għar Dalam phase) is similar to examples found in Agrigento, Sicily. These people were either supplanted by, or gave rise to a culture of megalithic temple builders, whose survi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese Language
Maltese (, also or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language derived from Siculo-Arabic, late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance languages, Romance Stratum (linguistics), superstrata. It is the only Semitic languages, Semitic language predominantly written in the Latin script. It is spoken by the Maltese people and is the national language of Malta, and is the only languages of the European Union, official Semitic and Afroasiatic language of the European Union. According to John L. Hayes, it descended from a Maghrebi Arabic, North African dialect of Colloquial Arabic which was introduced to Malta when the Aghlabid dynasty, Aghlabids captured it in 869/870 CE. It is also said to have descended from Siculo-Arabic, which developed as a Maghrebi Arabic dialect in the Emirate of Sicily between 831 and 1091. As a result of the Norman invasion of Malta and the subsequent history of religion in Malta#Arrival of Christianity, re-Christianization of the islands, Maltese evolved indepe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese People
The Maltese () people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language with a substantial Romance superstratum, and share a common Maltese history and culture characterised by Roman Catholicism, which remains the state religion. Malta, an island country in the Mediterranean Sea, is an archipelago that also includes an island of the same name together with the islands of Gozo () and Comino (); people of Gozo, ''Gozitans'' () are considered a subgroup of the Maltese. History The current Maltese people, characterised by the use of the Maltese language and by Roman Catholicism, are the descendants – through much mixing and hybridisation – of colonists from Sicily and Calabria who repopulated the Maltese islands in the beginning of the second millennium after a two-century lapse of depopulation that followed the Ifriqiyian conquest by the Aghlabids in AD 870. A genetic study by Capelli et al. indicates that Malta was barely in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese Dog
Maltese dog refers both to an ancient variety of dwarf, white-coated dog breed from Italy and generally associated also with the island of Malta, and to a modern dog breed, breed of similar dogs in the toy group, genetically related to the Bichon, Bolognese dog, Bolognese, and Havanese dog, Havanese breeds. The precise link, if any, between the modern and ancient breeds is not known. Nicholas Cutillo suggested that Maltese dogs might descend from Spitz, spitz-type canines, and that the ancient variety probably was similar to the latter Pomeranian dog, Pomeranian breeds with their short snout, pricked ears, and bulbous heads. These two varieties, according to Stanley Coren, were perhaps the first dogs employed as human companions. The modern variety traditionally has a silky, pure-white coat, hanging ears and a tail that curves over its back, and weighs up to . The Maltese does not shed. The Maltese is kept for companion dog, companionship, ornament, or Dog show, competitive e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese Cat
A Maltese cat is any whose fur is completely or primarily grey (often called "blue" by Cat fancy, cat fanciers) and regardless of cat breed, breed. ''Maltese'' is a coat-colour term, not a breed name. Description There is some evidence of a historical breed with such colouration that existed in Malta Island, Malta, which may have given rise to the use of the adjective in this context. There are several cat breeds that always produce "blue" or grey fur, of whom the adjective may be used. These are the Russian Blue, the Chartreux and the Korat, none of which are associated with Malta. There are several other breeds that often produce blues such as the British Shorthair. The blue variant of this breed was so common that some thought it was its own breed called the "British Blue". Regardless of breed, any cat with solid grey colouration has cat coat genetics, two pairs of double-recessive genes for the non-agouti and colour-dilution traits, and so an exclusive mating between two so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese Goat
The Maltese is a comparatively small sized rare breed of Goat, dairy goat known for its high milk production, high prolifacy and a resistance and adaptation to heat stress. Origin This renowned dairy breed probably originated from the East and Central Mediterranean region, stretching to Anatolia, Asia Minor and the Middle East. As its name suggests, this breed takes its name from the island of Malta. History Goats of the Maltese breed have been known in the Maltese islands for hundreds of years; with documented references published as early as the 19th century. In 1886 the Maltese goat was already being showcased in the United Kingdom during a reunion for the colonial exposure of London. In the early 20th century the role of goats' milk in the transmission of Brucella melitensis in the Crown Colony of Malta became well known, and Maltese goats in particular were targeted. Stringent measures were adopted to identify and destroy all infected goats. Maltese goats which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese Cross
The Maltese cross is a cross symbol, consisting of four " V" or arrowhead shaped concave quadrilaterals converging at a central vertex at right angles, two tips pointing outward symmetrically. It is a heraldic cross variant which developed from earlier forms of eight-pointed crosses in the 16th century. Although chiefly associated with the Knights Hospitaller (Order of St. John, now the Sovereign Military Order of Malta), and by extension with the island of Malta, it has come to be used by a wide array of entities since the early modern period, notably the Order of Saint Stephen, the city of Amalfi, the Polish Order of the White Eagle (1709), the Prussian order ''Pour le Mérite'' (1740), and the Bavarian Military Merit Order (1866). Unicode defines a character named "Maltese cross" in the Dingbats range at code point U+2720 (✠); however, most computer fonts render the code point as a cross pattée. History The Knights Hospitaller during the Crusades used a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese (surname)
Maltese is an Italian surname, meaning literally "Maltese" or "from Malta". Notable people with the surname include: * Dario Maltese (footballer), Dario Maltese (born 1992), Italian footballer * Michael Maltese (1908–1981), American writer, actor, soundtrack composer * Serphin Maltese (born 1932), American politician * Matt Maltese (born 1997), British-Canadian singer-songwriter {{surname, Maltese Italian toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
