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Italian Maltese are the Maltese people who supported Italian irredentism in Malta and believe the Maltese islands are part of Italy. ==Characteristics== During the Middle Ages the Maltese islands were integrated with Sicily (even during the Arab conquest). The Normans united politically Malta to their Kingdom of Sicily and since then practically all the history of the Maltese islands was connected to southern Italy until Napoleonic times. Officially Malta (even if ruled for some centuries by the Knights of Malta and later occupied by the French and the British) was part of the Kingdom of Sicily until the Congress of Vienna in 1814, when was given to Great Britain. Indeed, the Italian language was official in Malta until the 20th century, the nobility of Malta was made of Italian families (who moved to Malta mainly in the 13th century) and the culture of Malta was fully integrated with the Italian one even because based on Roman Catholicism. After Great Britain obtained the islands after the Congress of Vienna, a process of Anglicisation has started to be promoted by the British authorities in Malta. This process has been done together with a process of de-Italianisation of Malta, according to some Maltese irredentists like Carmelo Borg Pisani. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Italian Maltese」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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