Maltese Diaspora | Countries with the highest populations
Posted by quindiassomigli
Maltese Diaspora | Countries with the highest populations
Posted by quindiassomigli
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I’m surprised Malta had that many people
Malta’s the southernmost part of Europe I’ve ever been to.. It’s a cool country!
As far as I know malta has a population around 570k
And there are 200K Maltese in australia that’s epic
I remember visiting in 1972(?). Had a lovely time!
Toronto has a “Little Malta”🇲🇹. It is worth visiting for the bakeries alone.
Fun fact: pretty much the enteresan Maltese diaspora in Turkey consists of Levantines. They’ve been here for at least 5 generations, if not longer. I avtually know a few people from this background
A lot of Maltese descendants in France too. After Spanish and Italians it was the 3rd non French Europeans in French North Africa. A lot of them moved to France post independence.
Their football team for example have 2 french players who qualify from ancestry Teuma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Teuma and Cardona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvin_Cardona
Do map of greek in Melbourne compare to other cities outside of Greece, people will be surprised
Malta should be divided between Tunisia and Italy
Not a strong map design here. Without the chart below showing the data, there’d be no real sense that Canada has 300x the Maltese population of Brazil, or that Britain and Turkey have significantly different Maltese populations. Brazil should really be so pale as to barely appear, which would create more space for the rest of the colour range. The arrows also do more harm than good here, I think: the 200,000 to Australia have the same arrow weight as the 130 to Brazil.
No matter the country, there is always going to be a diaspora of it in Brazil lol
They are a mix, not quite European, not African. They have a mix of Italian/southern European, Berber/north african, and Arab/west Asian ancestry. The language, culture, history and DNA represents this. They are quite unique for that, they aren’t really west Asian, African, or European, rather a mix. Especially cause it’s an island, not connect by land anywhere. Malta is the gateway to multiple continents.
So Australia have literally another Malta.
Australia having more than every other country combined is crazy
Pete Buttigieg
No way could it be that low in Turkey! People love’em.
I think I know more Maltese living in Brussels that those reflected in Brazil.
There is a Maltese Catholic cemetery in İzmir/Turkey, before 1922, Turkey had one of the biggest Maltese diaspora , there still are a few embedded in a wider Levantine minority in Izmir.
Maltese is the only European Arabic-family language, and the only Semitic language (not just Arabic-family language) written with a Latin alphabet.
🇨🇦 One of my best friends in grade school was first generation Canadian. Both his parents were born and raised in Malta. Absolutely awesome people. There was always laughter and light in their home. 🥰
Now I get why Britain has that candy called a Malteser