Melita/ȝƿ
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Melita is lytla īeȝrīċe in Ƿendelsǣ betƿēonum Italie and Affrice. Hēo hæfþ seofen īeȝe[1] Sēo mǣste īeȝ is Melitaīeȝ, sēo ōðre Gozo. Betƿuh þǣre tƿǣm līȝþ Comino.
Melite hēafodburg is Valletta. Melita is nū ƿitenaȝemōtȝebeƿitnu cyneƿīse.
Þurh mæniȝum ieldum hæfþ man ȝesēon Melita sƿā nīedmiċlu stōƿe for hiere staðol in þæs Ƿendelsǣs midde[2]. Mæniȝ rīċu hæbbaþ ȝeheald Melita; Cartainaþēod, Rōmƿare, Arabas, Constantinopolis, Sicilie and mer. In 1530 and oþ 1798 ricsode se Sanctus Iohanes Cnighta Orden. Napoleon nām þa īeȝe in 1798, and Bretƿare fram him in 1800.
Oþ 1964 ƿæs Melita landbūnes þæs Bryttiscan Rīċes and Valetta þæs Cynelican Scipheres hefiȝeste hȳþ þæs Ƿendelsǣs. Se Cyneliċan Sciphere abad in Valetta oþ 1979.
For þæs īeȝfolces ānmōd on þāra Ōðran Ƿoruldgūþe ȝeaf Georgius VI Cyning þǣm īeȝum þa Georgius Rōde. Sēo Georgius Rōd is ȝeboren on sēo cyneƿīsan fānan.
Melite ȝereordas sind Melitisc and Nīƿu Englisc. Italisc understandaþ mæniȝe on þa īeȝe ēac.
[ādihtan] Glēsing
- ↑ The Maltese Islands, Department of Information - Malta (on Nīƿum Englisce)
- ↑ History of Malta A History of Malta (on Nīƿum Englisce)
