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Title: National identity
Authors: Frendo, Henry
Keywords: National characteristics, Maltese
Group identity -- Malta
Malta -- History
Catholic Church -- Malta -- History
Knights of Malta -- History
Maltese language -- History
Maltese language -- History -- Language question, 1880-1934
Malta -- Politics and government -- History
Malta -- European influence
Issue Date: 1994
Publisher: Malta. Ministry for Youth and the Arts
Citation: Frendo, H. (1994). National identity. In H. Frendo, & O. Friggieri (Eds.), Malta: culture and identity (pp. 1-25). Malta: Ministry for Youth and the Arts.
Abstract: It has been said that the smaller a nation is, the more its territory has the character of 'the natal soil'. Smallness retains integrity, facilities human contact, and is more likely to have natural boundaries. In the case of the closely connected Maltese Islands in the central Mediterranean, the feeling of 'home' (heimat in German) could overlap with and evolve into the feeling of 'nation' (patria) with relative ease.The Upper Barracca garden in Valletta on the former Sceberras peninsula has long provided a grand-stand view not only of the magnificent harbours busy with naval, maritime and passenger activity, nor simply of the defensive and aesthetically impressive network of massive fortifications surrounding it, but also an instant sense of Malta's people: of the whereabouts of a good part of the entire population of the country.
Description: This document contains the Table of Contents, a Foreword by Hon. Michael Refalo - Minister of Youth and the Arts, and Editors’ Preface.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47450
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