Didn't know the name of the municipality, so just started typing all the four-letter names from the New Testament and got it after trying Mark, Luke, Mary and John.
I stupidly missed the currency question! I tried pound, dollar, ruble, rupee, real, rial, peso... totally forgot about this new currency called the 'euro'.
Actually I think it is a pretty ugly country, seeing that they don't really have a working garbage collection. They have their trash lying around in sacks all over the pothole-covered streets. And they often rip open - yummy! Also people just trow their trash on these sacks when walking past. But the sea their is indeed the most beautiful one I know, at least on Gozo, because in Malta the people at the fish markets trow the fish heads into the water, which makes for a very interesting smell and sight.
Arabs are the people from Arab, not necessarily Muslim. As well as Muslims are although in Majority in Arab World, but there are Muslims all around the world as well.
This was really easy for me. I knew all the answers because of the tour guide in Malta. I thought back then this knowledge would never come in handy. Interestingly, they have these two places called Mdina and Rabat. Reminds me of two other places...
I didn't know about this. My guess is that they were expelled along religious, rather than ethnic, grounds. (And, while I don't know the history, if it's like North Africa, it might be a bit too simple to refer to Muslims in Malta at that time as Arab.) Maltese, by the way, is a Semitic language. Their word for the (Christian) god is Allah (though I'm not sure that's how they spell it).
Yep because the Arabic 'Alla' or 'Allah' is derived from the much older Aramaic 'Elaha' (also used in Syriac), hence why you get jews, christians and muslims using 'Alla' today. It's like 'Dios' and 'Dio' in Spanish and Italian respectively derive from the Latin 'Deus'.
Muslims is much more accurate than Arabs in this instance. The expulsion of Islam from Malta happened in the 13th century, long before the concept of race was invented, and even longer before the pan-Arabist movement of the 1950s convinced Arabic-speaking people everywhere from the Maghreb to the Levant - who often had little in common culturally or genetically - to start identifying as "Arab." It almost goes without saying that the event was driven by religious identification. Often around this point in history when such religious purges occurred, people were even given the option to convert if they preferred not being executed or exiled, and, indeed, many Muslims in Malta converted to Christianity.
Malta actually had a referendum in 1956 where they voted 77% to be integrated into the UK and would hold three seats in the Houses of Parliament. Cool country, there was this nondescript building in one of the places we were staying near in Gozo and this woman just sort of had a staircase spiralling down into the floor in the middle of the building and when you went down it you were in a reasonably big rock grotto with paths that went in all directions so that was interesting.
My first foreign holiday was in Malta about 6 years ago. It was a really interesting place to visit with loads to see and so much history. The waters around Gozo were amazing