Paola (Maltese: Raħal Ġdid, Italian: Casal Nuovo, both meaning "New Town") is a town in the South Eastern Region of Malta, with 8,706 inhabitants as of 2019.The town is a commercial centre in the Southern Harbour area of Malta, about 5 km from the capital Valletta, contiguous to Tarxien and Fgura, with which it forms a single urban area.Paola is named after Grand Master Antoine …

This is a list of grand masters of the Knights Hospitaller, including its continuation as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta after 1798. It also includes unrecognized "anti-grand masters" and lieutenants or stewards during vacancies. In lists of the heads of the Order, the title "Grand Master" is often applied retrospectively to the early heads of the Order. The medieval heads of …

The Battle of Cape Passaro, also known as Battle of Avola or Battle of Syracuse, was a major naval battle fought on 11 August 1718 between a fleet of the British Royal Navy under Admiral Sir George Byng and a fleet of the Spanish Navy under Rear-Admiral Antonio de Gaztañeta.It was fought off Cape Passaro, in the southern tip of the island of Sicily of which Spain had occupied.

Storia La fondazione dell'Ordine Gerardo Sasso, fondatore dell'Ordine di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme.Incisione su rame di Laurent Cars, c. 1725. Vessillo degli ospitalieri di San Giovanni (miniatura del 1250) Il Sovrano militare ordine di Malta trae le sue origini dall'antica confraternita di monaci che, sotto la guida di Gerardo Sasso di Scala (località vicina ad Amalfi) …

1720: Ramon Perellos y Roccaful, Großmeister des Malteserordens; 1724: Bénédict Pictet, Schweizer evangelischer Geistlicher und Hochschullehrer; 1731: Johann Michael Lang, deutscher lutherischer Theologe, Geistlicher und Hochschullehrer; 1736: Gottlieb Samuel Pristaff, deutscher Fälscher; 1752: Paul Egell, deutscher Bildhauer und Stuckateur

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Paul (Maltese: Il-Katidral Metropolitan ta' San Pawl), commonly known as St Paul's Cathedral or the Mdina Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Mdina, Malta, dedicated to St. Paul the Apostle.The cathedral was founded in the 12th century, and according to tradition it stands on the site of where Roman governor Publius met St. Paul …

Paweł I Romanow, Paweł I Piotrowicz, ros. Павел I Петрович (ur. 20 września? / 1 października 1754 w Petersburgu, zm. 11 marca? / 23 marca 1801 tamże) – cesarz Rosji w latach 1796–1801, wielki mistrz Zakonu Maltańskiego 1799–1801, hrabia Oldenburga w 1773, wolnomularz