Arab Heritage in Malta

Our geography makes our history thus our language,our race,our culture.In 1976 I lived in Naples with economists from all developing countries. There were no Europeans, no Americans ( USA/Canadians), no Soviets. I as a Maltese mingled comfortably with Iraqis, Egyptians, Sudanese, and Indians. Why because of Arabe and English-speaking linguistic affinities. Semitic stems front Shem son of Noah and his descendants the Phoenicians, Jews and Arabs. Thereby this is the base of the cocktail. With the Roman and Roman Byzantine (the Orient) before the Arabalisation for about two centuries we were influenced by Siculo-Arabs and the Greek Sicilians. Then the the Germanic Normand , Aragonese, and the 230 years of French, Castillian, Italian and German knights. Then the 180 years of British domination. Insemination by foreign males and the Maltese mother rearing the offspring with the siculo-european-Semitic vocale resulting in today's moderne Maltese tongue dressed in Semitic grammar and an intonation and lexical and semantic meaning closest to Lebanese and Egyptian Arabic very akin to where Jewish tribes roamed. In times of Roger II and the Inquisition many Jews and Muslims were coerced to change their creed. However, the traditional beliefs, mannerisms, behavioural traits have evolved and became ingrained in out way of living, cuisine, architecture,religious beliefs and our homogeneity as one race of a cocktail and à language of a cocktail of a Cupic structure and Latin alphabet and an abundance of European words and semantics. Our geography thus made of history, race and language of today's Maltese living on the Maltese archipelago. Remember that 7000 years ago the then Maltese were the Neolithic people of which we have their temples, altars and artefacts. A female god and Malta a sacred mecca in the centre of the Mediterranean!

My family Vella, came to Malta in the from Aragon, they were knights,in the 1400s. That is of course way after the Arabs where thrown out of Malta. So what? So we the Vellas came to Malta only 600 years ago.
WE Maltese today are. mostly RC, look very much alike, and share the same way of life, ALL OF US. Quit with the oldest names , Arabic background , because we are really not sure who really were the first people in Malta, and the ARABS were not.

Let's settle this issue once and for all about Phoenicians as there are many people who wish to believe that Phoenicians have nothing to do with Arabs, so here's a quote from Herodotus from 440 BC. ; and the second is from Strabo:

Herodotus's account (written c. 440 BC) refers to the Io and Europa myths. (History, I:1).
According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began the quarrel. These people, who had formerly dwelt on the shores of the Erythraean Sea (the southern part of the Arabian peninsula-Yemen), having migrated to the Mediterranean and settled in the parts which they now inhabit, began at once, they say, to adventure on long voyages, freighting their vessels with the wares of Egypt and Assyria…
—Herodotus

Strabo, the Greek historian, geographer and philosopher mentioned that the Phoenicians came from the eastern part of the Arabia peninsula where they have similar gods, cemeteries and temples.

Esteemed gentlemen,
Please do not take Mr charles Said Vassallo of Australia too seriously and claims such as being a Prince of Turkish descent!

I recall vassallo's claim to it - viz, on the basis of a mistaken understanding of a descendants clause' in an alleged 15th century Sicilian grant to an ancestor from whom mr vassallo had an alleged female-line descent - which was comprehensively debunked a couple of years ago on rec.heraldry. A plethora of other titles remain online, C.f.:http://www.geocities.com/maltesenobility/bibinoSaid.htm

Belinda Vassallo

HERE IS THE MALTESE GENETICS YOU CANNOT DEFEAT SCIENCE ONCE AND FOR ALL ....R1 AND R1B ARE OF EUROPEAN AND THE PERCENTAGES UP THE MALTESE HAVE MORE EUROPEAN GENETICS THEN WHAT RUMOURS SAY AND NO MALTESE ARE NOT 100% ARABS AS I RESEARCHED MY ANCESTERY BACK MY FAMILY CAME FROM THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA BUT WE DO HAVE SLIGHT SEMETIC I HOPE THIS CAN HELP. GeneticsY-Dna haplogroups are found at the following frequencies in Malta : R1 (35.55% including 32.2% R1b), J (28.90% including 7.80% J1), I (12.20%), E (11.10% including 8.9% E1b1b), F (6.70%), K (4.40%), P (1.10%).[23] R1 and I are typical in European populations. J, K, F and E1b1b haplogroups consist of lineages with differential distribution within Middle East, North Africa and Europe. The low percentages of J1 and E1b1b are similar to the Sicilian population, suggesting common ancestry with Sicilians and negligible genetic input from both North Africa and the Middle East

I HOPE THIS CAN HELP. GeneticsY-Dna haplogroups are found at the following frequencies in Malta : R1 (35.55% including 32.2% R1b), J (28.90% including 7.80% J1), I (12.20%), E (11.10% including 8.9% E1b1b), F (6.70%), K (4.40%), P (1.10%).[23] R1 and I are typical in European populations. J, K, F and E1b1b haplogroups consist of lineages with differential distribution within Middle East, North Africa and Europe. The low percentages of J1 and E1b1b are similar to the Sicilian population, suggesting common ancestry with Sicilians and negligible genetic input from both North Africa and the Middle East

hi all my family name is Zahra, can anyone give history about that?

and also can anyone give history about the village of rabbat.

thanks