{"id":14454,"date":"2022-05-23T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/?p=14454"},"modified":"2023-04-12T10:08:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T14:08:25","slug":"gate-of-fortified-wall-in-mdina-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/gate-of-fortified-wall-in-mdina-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Gate of Fortified Wall in Mdina, Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"14454\" class=\"elementor elementor-14454\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-791eae38 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"791eae38\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-75f421ea\" data-id=\"75f421ea\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5411adaf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5411adaf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":14458,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15781 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fortified-Wall-in-Mdina-2022.jpg\" alt=\"Fortified Wall in Mdina 2022\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fortified-Wall-in-Mdina-2022.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fortified-Wall-in-Mdina-2022-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fortified-Wall-in-Mdina-2022-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fortified-Wall-in-Mdina-2022-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fortified-Wall-in-Mdina-2022-600x598.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Fortified-Wall-in-Mdina-2022-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Malta has many fortified walls around towns and cities.\u00a0 An impressive one is in Mdina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Malta is the only European country and only Roman Catholic country where the language is Semitic (related to Arabic and Hebrew).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The language took hold when Arabic speakers colonized the island starting in 870 AD with the Emirate of Ifriqiya in Tunisia. Afterwards it fell under the rule of the Emirate of Sicily until the islands were conquered by the Normans in 1091.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s not surprising that the name of the city of Mdina is quite similar to Medina, the second holiest city in Islam located in Saudi Arabia. Also, medina (non-capitalized) is the old Arab or non-European quarter of a North African town.<\/p>\n<p>You may also check out this interesting posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/croatia-zagreb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zagreb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/europe-slovakia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slovakia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/station-to-station-exploring-the-new-york-city-subway-photo-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Subway<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exploring Ed<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malta has many fortified walls around towns and cities.\u00a0 An impressive one is in Mdina.\u00a0 Malta is the only European country and only Roman Catholic country where the language is Semitic (related to Arabic and Hebrew).\u00a0 The language took hold when Arabic speakers colonized the island starting in 870 AD with the Emirate of Ifriqiya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,94,476],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14454"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15787,"href":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454\/revisions\/15787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exploringed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}