Malta

Melita in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mel'-i-ta (Melite, Acts 28:1): Is now generally identified with Malta. The former error in attributing the reference to the island of Meleda on the East coast of the Adriatic Sea was due to the ancient practice of employing the term Adria to include the Ionian and Sicilian seas. Malta is the largest of a group of islands including Gozo and the...

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Melita in Naves Topical Bible

(An important island in the Mediterranean Sea) -Paul shipwrecked on the coast of Ac 28:1-10...

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Melita in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(honey), the modern Malta. This island lies in the Mediterranean 60 miles south of Cape Passaro in Sicily, 900 miles from Gibraltar and about 1200 from Jerusalem. It is 17 miles long. by 13 or 10 broad. It is naturally a barren rock, with no high mountains, but has been rendered fertile by industry and toil. It is famous for its honey and frui...

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Melita Scripture - Acts 28:1

And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita....

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Melita in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Acts 27:28), an island in the Mediterranean, the modern Malta. Here the ship in which Paul was being conveyed a prisoner to Rome was wrecked. The bay in which it was wrecked now bears the name of "St. Paul's Bay", "a certain creek with a shore." It is about 2 miles deep and 1 broad, and the whole physical condition of the scene answers t...

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Melita in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The scene of Paul's shipwreck (Acts 27-28). Not the Melita now Meleda in the gulf of Venice near Dalmatia; but the Melita between Sicily and Africa, Malta, where tradition names the place of the wreck "Paul's bay" (Mr. Smith, of Jordan Hill, Shipwreck of Paul). After leaving Fair Havens in Crete, and while sailing along its S. coast, the wind ...

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Malta in Wikipedia

"..Malta has a long Christian legacy and is an Apostolic See. According to the Acts of the Apostles,[10] St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island and ministered there.[11] Catholicism continues to be the official and dominant religion in Malta..."...

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