Maltese people Maltese people The Maltese (, ) are an ethnic group indigenous to Malta, and identified with the Maltese language. Malta is an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Included within the ethnic group defined by the Maltese people are the "Gozitans" (, ) who inhabit Malta's sister island, Gozo. The current Maltese people, characterised by the use of the Maltese language and by Roman Catholicism, are the descendants – through much mixing and hybridisation – of colonists from Sicily and Calabria who repopulated the Maltese islands in the beginning of the second millennium after a two-century lapse of
Zeila Archipelago Zeila Archipelago The Sa'ad ad-Din Islands (, ), also Romanized as Sa'ad-ed-din and known as the Zeila Archipelago, are group of islands off the northern coast of Somalia. They are situated near the ancient city of Zeila. The Zeila Archipelago is made of six small island all of which are low-lying and have sandy beaches. The largest of these islands are "Sacadin" and "Aibat", which are six and nine miles off the coast of Zeila, respectively. There is also a lighthouse at Aibat. The name for the archipelago comes from the Somali Sultan Sa'ad ad-Din II who was killed by