Two new Heritage Malta publications focusing on the Great Siege of 1565 have been launched during a ceremony presided by President Myriam Spiteri Debono. The first publication, The Great Siege of ...

"It remains an extraordinary story," said Mathew Lyons in Literary Review. On 18 May 1565, an Ottoman fleet of some 200 ships carrying more than 25,000 soldiers appeared off Malta, to be joined later ...

On The Great Siege of Malta, by Marcus Bull. Clashing civilizations, rival great powers, cutting-edge technology: we have been here before, as Marcus Bull, a professor at the University of North ...

1565: Muslims battle Christians in the bloody Siege of Malta. The conflict between the West and Islam ended when the first U.S. Marines fought pirates along “the shores of Tripoli”? Not long ago, that ...

Crowley (1453), an independent scholar of the 16th-century Mediterranean, focuses here on the final contest between Christian and Muslim, Hapsburg and Ottoman, for control of the Middle Sea.

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 19 June 2023 The Maltese archipelago has a history of colonial control spanning centuries. Located south of the Italian island of Sicily ...

To say that Malta has a rich history is an understatement. Walk the streets and clifftops of this Mediterranean archipelago and you’ll discover layers of history that go back hundreds and even ...