The owners of Air Malta Ltd used their real estate, staff and equipment to set up a ground handling company called MAS, Malta Aviation Services.

Both Malta Airlines and Malta Aviation Services were taken over by the government and the private owners were given a shareholding in Air Malta Co. Ltd.

* Malta Aviation Museum in Malta ;

The Royal Air Force withdrew in 1994, at which point the English Electric Lightning acting as a gate guardian was scrapped ; only the nose section was retained and sent to the Malta Aviation Museum.

Medavia ( Mediterranean Aviation Co. Ltd ) is an airline based in Luqa, Malta.

Category: Aviation in Malta

Instead, in 1860 the Armory was officially opened as Malta ’ s first public museum.

In the early 17th century Abela converted his house at Marsa to a historical museum, the first on Malta.

The land on which the Co-cathedral was built belongs to the Government of Malta and the care of the co-cathedral and museum has been entrusted to the St John's Co-Cathedral Foundation whose executive secretary is Dr Claude P. P.

* Tempra museum of contemporary art, Malta

This was created when Giovanni Francesco Abela converted his house into a museum and was the first of its type on Malta.

The Compesières Commandry and the museum of the Order of Malta and the Domaine Micheli in Landecy are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

In many tourist or travel destinations, a bus is part of the tourist attraction, such as the North American tourist trolleys, London ’ s Routemaster heritage routes, or the customised buses of Malta, Asia and the Americas.

It is likely that these were part of the treasure taken from Malta that was lost in the explosion aboard Orient.

The common law constitutes the basis of the legal systems of: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, federal law in the United States and the law of individual U. S. states ( except Louisiana ), federal law throughout Canada and the law of the individual provinces and territories ( except Quebec ), Australia ( both federal and individual states ), Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Granadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and many other generally English-speaking countries or Commonwealth countries ( except Scotland, which is bijuridicial, and Malta ).

This later culture is not to be confused with the Neolithic inhabitants of Malta, who built the Tarxien Temples circa 3100 BC.

is a doctorate-level academic degree in law requiring at least three years of post-graduate full-time study at the University of Malta, Malta's national university.

It confers the title of Doctor, which in Malta is rigorously used to address a holder of the degree.

is one of the requirements for admission to the profession of advocate in Malta ( an advocate, as opposed to a legal procurator, has rights of representation in superior courts ).

In addition, Malta was considered an island of North Africa for centuries, while Iceland, though nearer to Greenland ( North America ), is also generally included in Europe.

Trust is highest in Slovakia, Belgium, Malta, Denmark, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Luxembourg ; it is lowest in the UK ( 22 %) and Latvia ( 40 %).

* 1800 – Malta is taken over by Great Britain.

Italian ( or lingua italiana ) is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia.

Italian is also widely spoken in Malta, where nearly two-thirds of the population can speak it fluently, making it the most spoken non-official language.

In addition, among EU states, the Italian language is most likely to be learned as a second language in Malta by 61 % of the population, as well as in Slovenia by 15 % of the population, in Croatia by 14 % of the population, Austria by 11 % of the population, Romania by 8 % of the population, and by France and Greece by 6 % of the population.

He is also a Knight of Malta, and currently President of the Irish Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

In 1950, the owners, the Düsseldorf chapter of the Knights of Malta, turned it into an an orphanage, but it has subsequently returned to private ownership and is today a private residence again ( Anon.

On the island of Malta, a variety of limestone called Globigerina limestone was, for a long time, the only building material available, and is still very frequently used on all types of buildings and sculptures.

* Malta is represented in Luxembourg through its embassy in Brussel ( Belgium ) and through an honorary consulate in Luxembourg City.

The wall is owned by the Knights of Malta, who allowed the graffiti to continue on the wall, and is located at Velkopřevorské náměstí ( Grand Priory Square ), Malá Strana.

Maltese ( Malti ) is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English,

Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic ( the Arabic dialect that developed in Sicily, and later in Malta, between the end of the ninth century and the end of the thirteenth century ).

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Malta, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Malta is the most densely populated country in the EU and one of the most densely populated countries in the world, with about 1, 265 inhabitants per square kilometre ( 3, 000 per square mile ).

A large portion of the population is also fluent in Italian, which was, until 1936, the national language of Malta.

There are also two man-made harbours that connect the islands of Malta and Gozo.

There is also a ferry terminal at the Grand Harbour that connects Malta to Pozzallo and Catania in Sicily.

The tribunals of the Roman Inquisition covered most of the Italian peninsula as well as Malta and also existed in isolated pockets of papal jurisdiction in other parts of Europe, including Avignon in France.

* Victory Day, also the feast of Our Lady of Victories or il-Vittorja ( Malta )

The torch is also a symbol used by political parties, for instance by both Labour ( from 1918 to 1980 ) and the Conservatives ( from 1983 to 2006 ) in the UK, and the Malta Labour Party.

The Holy See also attends as an observer, as does the Order of Malta.

The Pleistocene also saw a number of dwarf species evolve on several Mediterranean islands including Crete ( H. creutzburgi ), Cyprus ( H. minor ), Malta ( H. melitensis ) and Sicily ( H. pentlandi ).

There were also concerns expressed by British MPs that the representation of Malta at Westminster would set a precedent for other colonies, and influence the outcome of general elections.

In 2000, capital punishment was abolished also from the military code of Malta.

Given the closeness shared by the countries bordering the Mediterranean basin, and very topical interest to the consolidation of the European Union's enlargement policy, he also intended to establish trade relations with the Republic of Malta aimed at encouraging mutual knowledge and awareness in a profitable way their local communities on European issues of common interest and current.

These contemporary Catholics are mostly families who came from Malta, but also from Italy during the Republic of Venice, and today the Catholic community takes in about 4000 people, ( 2 / 3 of Maltese descent ) who live almost exclusively in the Venetian " Citadel " of Corfu City, and harmoniously side-by-side with the Orthodox community.

Although Malta is situated in Europe, it is located farther south than African Tunis, capital of Tunisia, Algiers, capital of Algeria, Tangier in Morocco and also Aleppo in Syria, and Mosul in Iraq in the Middle East.

See also: Climate of Malta

The garden houses a monument built by the Hastings family dedicated to Francis, Marquis of Hastings, also Governor of Malta.

Its collection spans the personal libraries of the Knights of Malta ( also the archives and treasury manuscripts of that order ), including archives from the medieval dei Giurati of Mdina and Valletta.

It was manufactured at the Longbridge and Cowley plants in England, the Victoria Park / Zetland British Motor Corporation ( Australia ) factory in Sydney, Australia, and later also in Spain ( Authi ), Belgium, Chile, Italy ( Innocenti ), Malta, Portugal, South Africa, Uruguay, Venezuela and Yugoslavia.

He is also a Knight of Malta.

There has also been a number of foreigners who have represented the national teams of Sweden, Iceland, Senegal, Finland, Malta, Australia, South Africa, Slovenia, Tunisia, Canada, Somalia, and Nigeria.

Despite his divorces, Harris was a member of the Roman Catholic Knights of Malta, and was also dubbed a knight by the Queen of Denmark in 1985.