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Melite (Ancient Greek: Μελ委τη, Melít膿) or Melita was an ancient city located on the site of present-day Mdina and Rabat, Malta. It started out as a Bronze Age settlement, which developed into a city called Ann ( Phoenician : 饜饜饜 , 示nn ) under the Phoenicians and became the administrative centre of the island. [ 1 ]
Melite or Melita (/ 藞 m 蓻 l 瑟 t i藧 /; Ancient Greek: Μελ委τη Melitê means 'calm, honey sweet' or 'glorious, splendid' [1]) was the name of several characters in Greek mythology: Melita, one of the 3,000 Oceanids , water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys . [ 2 ]
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Acts 28 is the twenty-eighth and final chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records the journey of Paul from Malta to Italy until he is at last settled in Rome.
Melita depicted on a £1 stamp designed by Edward Caruana Dingli issued on 28 August 1922. Melita is a national personification of Malta.The name originated from the Punic-Roman town of Melite (Μελ委τη, Melite in Ancient Greek), the ancient capital of Malta which eventually developed into the city of Mdina.
The variant spelling/pronunciation Melitta is the Attic Greek dialect for Melissa. (Compare the Attic word for sea, thalatta, with the more common thalassa.)Within a fragment of the Orphic poetry, quoted by Natalis Comes, Melitta is spoken of as a hive, and called Seira, or the hive of Venus:
And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. [6] "Aristarchus": One of Paul's travel companions, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, who is known from some references in the Acts of the Apostles (19:29; 20:4; 27:2) and Colossians 4:10. [7]
Melito of Sardis (Greek: Μελ委των Σ维ρδεων Melít艒n Sárde艒n; died c. 180) was the bishop of Sardis near Smyrna in western Anatolia, and who held a foremost place among the early Christian bishops in Asia due to his personal influence and his literary works, most of which have been lost.