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The Norman invasion of Malta was an attack on the island of Malta, then inhabited predominantly by Muslims, by forces of the Norman County of Sicily led by Roger I in 1091. The invaders besieged Medina (modern Mdina), the main settlement on the island, but the inhabitants managed to negotiate peace terms. The Muslims freed Christian captives ...
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Norman invasion of Malta part of the Norman conquest of southern Italy: Arabs Norman County of Sicily: Norman victory 1283 Battle of Malta part of the War of the Sicilian Vespers: Aragonese Kingdom of Sicily: Angevin Kingdom of Sicily: Aragonese victory 1429 Siege of Malta Kingdom of Sicily Maltese civilians: Hafsid Kingdom: Maltese victory
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Norman invasion of Malta; Z. Raid on Żejtun This page was last edited on 24 August 2019, at 12:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The city withstood the siege for some weeks or months, but it ultimately fell to the invaders, and its inhabitants were massacred and the city was sacked. However, Ibn al-Athir states that by 870 Malta was already a Muslim settlement, and that the Arab-held island was being besieged by a Byzantine fleet.
After the Norman conquest, the population of the Maltese islands kept growing mainly through immigration from the north (Sicily and Italy), with the exile to Malta of the entire male population of the town of Celano (Italy) in 1223, the stationing of a Norman and Sicilian garrison on Malta in 1240 and the settlement in Malta of noble families ...
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