Although Angevin rule was short, it was during this time that Malta really started to become part of Europe as regards laws, government and church administration. The July 1283 naval Battle of Malta at the entrance to the Grand Harbour marked the beginning of Aragonese rule, one of the most turbulent periods in Malta’s history…
Per tutto il Medioevo, le fortune delle isole Maltesi erano legate a quelle dei reali e dei nobili Europei. Nel 1282 una rivolta, conosciuta come quella dei Vespri Siciliani, in cui i ribelli Siciliani uccisero 3000 Francesi, uomini e donne e Re Carlo della dinastia Angioina perse il controllo dell’isola. Pietro III di Aragona fu […]
Ende des 10. Jahrhunderts war das Mittelmeer Zentrum eines Krieges der drei großen Mächte jener Zeit: die Byzantiner, die Muslime und die Normannen. Die Normannen breiteten sich 1014 n.Chr. zuerst in Italien aus und nahmen 1091 unter Roger Hauteville nach einem 30-jährigen Krieg mit den Arabern Sizilien ein. Von dort aus segelte Graf Roger weiter […]
At the end of the tenth century the central Mediterranean was a battlefield for three great powers: the Byzantines, the Muslims and the Normans. In 1091 the Normans under Roger Hauteville took over all Sicily from the Arabs and sailed to Malta, the beginning of the re-christianisation of Malta’s Arab-speaking Christian population caught between two worlds.
Alla fine del X secolo il Mediterraneo centrale era un campo di battaglia per tre grandi potenze: i bizantini, i musulmani e i normanni. Nel 1091 i Normanni sotto Ruggero d’Altavilla conquistarono tutta la Sicilia dagli Arabi e salparono verso Malta, l’inizio della ricristianizzazione della popolazione maltese di lingua araba catturata tra due mondi.
The background of wayside chapels that dot the Maltese and Gozitan countryside is much more complex and fascinating than their simple structures might suggest.
When one analyses today’s permissive society with regard to standards of morality, one might conclude that present-day Malta has plummeted to unprecedented decadence.
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