Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Volume 10Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, 2000 |
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... BIRGU , 1530-1571 THE HEYDAY OF A MALTESE MARITIME CITY STANLEY FIORINI University of Malta This paper surveys briefly the peak forty years in the life of the small Maltese maritime town of Birgu coinciding with the first four decades ...
... BIRGU , 1530-1571 THE HEYDAY OF A MALTESE MARITIME CITY STANLEY FIORINI University of Malta This paper surveys briefly the peak forty years in the life of the small Maltese maritime town of Birgu coinciding with the first four decades ...
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... Birgu.30 31 Among the several who followed the knights to Malta there was at least one sculptor , Nicholaus Caccialepre , and a surprisingly large number of gold- and silver - smiths , many of them Rhodiots ; the names of no less than ...
... Birgu.30 31 Among the several who followed the knights to Malta there was at least one sculptor , Nicholaus Caccialepre , and a surprisingly large number of gold- and silver - smiths , many of them Rhodiots ; the names of no less than ...
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... Birgu had been transformed from ' a mere hamlet with tottering buildings ' into a vigorous cosmopolitan and independent maritime centre that merited to be called nova civitas Melitae . " But the fortifications of Birgu did not have to ...
... Birgu had been transformed from ' a mere hamlet with tottering buildings ' into a vigorous cosmopolitan and independent maritime centre that merited to be called nova civitas Melitae . " But the fortifications of Birgu did not have to ...
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Living on the Margin Byzantine Farmers | 93 |
The British Protectorate of the Ionian Islands 18471859 | 107 |
Founts of Identity The Thirst of Hercules | 125 |
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