Language Question (Malta)
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The Language Question was a linguistic and political controversy in the British colony of Malta which lasted from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. It began as a dispute over whether the dominant language on the islands should be English or Italian, and it ended with the native Maltese becoming an official language alongside English.
Trilingual voting document for the cancelled 1930 election, with text in English, Italian and Maltese
An early 19th century British colonial inscription from a garden in Żabbar written in Italian
100-ton gun at Rinella Battery, installed by the British in the 1880s to counter a potential Italian naval threat to Malta
Italian-language plaque on Fortunato Mizzi's house in Valletta. It was installed in the 1950s, replacing the original plaque which had been installed in 1922 and vandalized in 1940.
Italian irredentism in Malta
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Italian irredentism in Malta is the movement that uses an irredentist argument to propose the incorporation of the Maltese islands into Italy, with reference to past support in Malta for Italian territorial claims on the islands. Although Malta had formally ceased to be part of the Kingdom of Sicily only since 1814 following the Treaty of Paris, Italian irredentism in Malta was mainly significant during the Italian Fascist era.
The Sette Giugno monument, symbol of the pro-Italian Maltese.
Villa Gloria by Alberto La Ferla in Ta' Xbiex, in Stile Littorio with prominent fasci-like columns