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Bronze Age defensive wall at Borġ in-Nadur. The first fortifications in Malta were built during the Bronze Age. At least six sites have been identified as possible fortified settlements. [5] The best preserved of these is the village of Borġ in-Nadur, close to the modern town of Birżebbuġa. Around 1450 BC, the inhabitants of the village ...
It is occupied by a Tarxien phase megalithic temple as well as the remains of a Bronze Age village which includes the earliest fortification in Malta. The site is located close to various Bronze Age cart ruts and silos, a Roman villa at Ta' Kaċċatura, as well as Saint George Redoubt which was built thousands of years later in 1715–1716.
This is a list of fortifications of Malta. [1] Prehistoric fortifications. Name Image Location Built Status Baħrija: Rabat: Bronze Age Scant remains [2] Borġ in-Nadur:
The parasitic plant Cynomorium coccineum, the "Malta fungus", was first described here. [13] Cittadella (Victoria – Gozo) Victoria: 1998 ii, iii, iv, v (cultural) A small fortified city at a strategic position on a hill dominates the surrounding countryside. First settlements on the site date back to the Bronze Age.
Melite (Ancient Greek: Μελίτη, Melítē) or Melita was an ancient city located on the site of present-day Mdina and Rabat, Malta. It started out as a Bronze Age settlement, which developed into a city called Ann (Phoenician: 𐤀𐤍𐤍, ʾnn) under the Phoenicians and became the administrative centre of the island. [1]
The Fortifications Interpretation Centre contains exhibits relating to both military architecture in general as well as the various fortifications of Malta, starting from the Bronze Age walls at Borġ in-Nadur to the pillboxes built by the British in World War II.
When the British requisitioned the site to build the fort, they probably destroyed the Bronze Age remains, although no proof of their existence is known. Despite this, catacombs dating to the 4th or 5th century AD were found under the fort and they still exist. [3] The fort was last of the three major forts of the Victoria Lines to be built.
The Cittadella (Maltese: Iċ-Ċittadella), also known as the Castello (Maltese: Il-Kastell), [a] is the citadel of Victoria on the island of Gozo, Malta.The area has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, and the site now occupied by the Cittadella is believed to have been the acropolis of the Punic-Roman city of Gaulos or Glauconis Civitas.