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The Three Cities (Maltese: It-Tlett Ibliet) is a collective description of the three fortified cities of Vittoriosa, Senglea and Cospicua in Malta. [1] The oldest of the Three Cities is Vittoriosa, which has existed since prior to the Middle Ages.
Birgu (Maltese: Il-Birgu [ɪlˈbɪrɡʊ], Italian: Vittoriosa), also known by its title Città Vittoriosa ('Victorious City'), is an old fortified city on the south side of the Grand Harbour in the South Eastern Region of Malta. The city occupies a promontory of land with Fort Saint Angelo at its head and the city of Cospicua at its base. Birgu ...
Senglea (Maltese: L-Isla), also known by its title Città Invicta (or Civitas Invicta), is a fortified city in the South Eastern Region of Malta. It is one of the Three Cities in the Grand Harbour area, the other two being Cospicua and Vittoriosa , and has a population of approximately 2,720 people.
It is situated between the other two towns which make up Cottonera which are Vittoriosa (Birgu) and Senglea (Isla). These three towns form part of the area surrounding the Grand Harbour and are found on the eastern side of the capital city Valletta. Its population is of 5,642. Cospicua was inhabited since Neolithic times and the last to be ...
The southeastern shore of the harbour is formed by a number of inlets and headlands, principally Rinella Creek, Kalkara Creek, Dockyard Creek, and French Creek, which are covered by Kalkara and the Three Cities: Cospicua, Vittoriosa, and Senglea. The harbour has been described as Malta's greatest geographic asset. [3]
Cospicua or Bormla (Maltese, ), occasionally also known by the Latin name Cottonera, [citation needed] is a double-fortified harbour city in the Port Region of Malta. As Maleth ( Phoenician : 𐤌𐤋𐤈 , MLṬ ), it served as the principal port of Phoenician Malta and, through Greek , Latin , and Arabic , may have given its name to the ...
Map of Birgu (top) and Senglea (bottom) during the Great Siege of Malta. The first fortification to be built in Birgu was the Castrum Maris.It is popularly attributed to have been built by the Arabs in around 870, but the earliest references to the castle date back to around the 13th century.
3 Il-Birgu Città Vittoriosa. 4 Birkirkara. 5 Birżebbuġa. 6 Bormla Città Cospicua. 7 Ħad-Dingli. 8 Il-Fgura. 9 Il-Furjana Borgo Vilhena. ... (Senglea) (Città ...