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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/90284| Title: | The 'Castellu di la Chitati' : the medieval castle of the walled town of Mdina |
| Authors: | Spiteri, Stephen C. |
| Keywords: | Mdina (Malta) -- History Fortification -- Malta -- History Mdina (Malta) -- Buildings, structures, etc. Fortification -- Malta -- Mdina -- History Mdina (Malta) -- Defences Castellu di la Chitati (Mdina, Malta) Lost architecture -- Malta -- Mdina Military architecture -- Malta -- Mdina -- History |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | MilitaryArchitecture.com |
| Citation: | Spiteri, S. C. (2007). The 'Castellu di la Chitati' : the medieval castle of the walled town of Mdina. ARX – Online Journal of Military Architecture, 1-4, 3-11. |
| Abstract: | One of the least understood of all the works of fortification to have stood watch over the Maltese islands in antiquity is the castellu di la chitati (1) - the medieval castle of the old town of Mdina. The arcanum that surrounds this ancient stronghold stems primarily from the fact that it was dismantled way back in the 15th century and what little had remained of the building thereafter, eventually disappeared altogether in the metamorphosis that accompanied the Hospitaller re-fortification of the medieval town into a gunpowder fortress throughout the course of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/90284 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacBenHA |
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