Place-Names of the Maltese Islands ca1300-1800

Place-Names of the Maltese Islands ca1300-1800

Godfrey Wettinger, now Emeritus Professor of the University of Malta, is a recognised authority on the medieval history of the Maltese Islands, mainly from fifteenth century documents.

Here he is offering the fruit of his detailed research into Maltese place names from the earliest known records of the later Middle Ages down to 1800 with much additional information on local surnames and nicknames.

Links are continually provided to the various cultural trends long forgotten that have dominated the local scene in past centuries.

The thousands of place-names with all their supporting documentation provide vital and otherwise unattainable data on the changing topography of the Maltese Islands.

Hundreds of Maltese words otherwise undocumented until centuries later are here recorded precisely in their original orthography accompanied with precise comparative data from Maltese, Arabic and other sources.

By: Godfrey Wettinger

No of pages: 645

Format: Hardback.