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Malta - Malta is the name of the largest island in the Maltese Islands, a small group of islands in the central Mediterranean, south of Sicily. Collectively, these islands form a country also known as Malta. The word Malta is derived from the Latin name for the island, Melite, which probably is derived from the Phoenician word melita, a place of refuge, literally "he escaped."