Malta
January 14-17 , 2007

I went to Malta for a few days for work. It is a beautiful city, although I only got to see it for a couple of hours one afternoon, as the rest of the time I was at the hotel in meetings. Malta is an island (7 of them) archipelago nation (EU member) in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea just south of Sicily, East of Tunisia, and North of Libya. It had numerous rulers, from the Romans to Byzantine to Arabs (Arabic is most prominent in the modern Maltese language). In 1814 (as part of the treaty of Paris) it officially became part of the British Empire until its independence in 1964. It became a member of the EU in 2004.