Xgħajra
Xgħajra is a small village in the Port Region of Malta. It is located on the coast, about halfway between Valletta and Marsaskala. Its local football club is known as the Xgħajra Tornadoes F.C.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,730 residents
- Description: local council of Malta
- Also known as: “Ix-Xgħara”, “Sh’ayra”, “Shghaira”, “Xghaira”, and “Xghajra”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Peter’s Battery and Fort Saint Rocco.
Saint Peter’s Battery
Saint Peter's Battery was an artillery battery in Kalkara, Malta, built by Maltese insurgents during the French blockade of 1798–1800. It was part of a chain of batteries, redoubts and entrenchments encircling the French positions in Marsamxett and the Grand Harbour.Fort Saint Rocco
Fort
Photo: Continentaleurope, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Saint Rocco, also known as Fort Saint Roca on some maps, is a polygonal fort in Kalkara, Malta. It is located east of Rinella Battery and seaward of the village of Santu Rokku, and forms part of the complex of shore batteries built by the British to defend the coast east of the mouth of Grand Harbour between the 1870s and 1900s.
Red House
Historic building
Photo: Continentaleurope, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Red House is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Żabbar and Kalkara.
Żabbar
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Żabbar, also known as Città Hompesch, is a city in the Port Region of Malta. It is the seventh largest city in the country, with an estimated population of 15,648 as of January 2021.
Kalkara
Village
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kalkara is a village in the Port Region of Malta, with a population of 3,014 as of March 2014. The name is derived from the Latin word for lime, and it is believed that there was a lime kiln present there since Roman times.
Birgu
Town
Photo: Xwejnusgozo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Birgu, also known by its title Città Vittoriosa, is an old fortified city on the south side of the Grand Harbour in the Port 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.
Xgħajra
- Categories: local council of Malta and locality
- Location: Ix-Xgħajra, Malta, Europe
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Latitude
35.88807° or 35° 53′ 17″ northLongitude
14.54787° or 14° 32′ 52″ eastPopulation
1,730Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)United Nations Location Code
MT XAGOpen location code
8F7PVGQX+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 130930250OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Xgħajra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زغواجرا”
- Arabic: “شایرا”
- Basque: “Xgħajra”
- Bengali: “জাঝরা”
- Catalan: “Xgħajra”
- Cebuano: “Ix-Xgħajra”
- Chinese: “沙伊拉”
- Czech: “Xgħajra”
- Danish: “Xgħajra”
- Dutch: “Xgħajra”
- Esperanto: “Xgħajra”
- Finnish: “Xgħajra”
- French: “Ix-Xgħajra”
- French: “Xgħajra”
- German: “Xgħajra”
- Greek: “Ξγκάτζρα”
- Gujarati: “ઝ્ઘાજ્રા”
- Hindi: “ज़ग़ाज़रा”
- Hungarian: “Xgħajra”
- Indonesian: “Xgħajra”
- Italian: “Sciaira”
- Italian: “Xgħajra”
- Japanese: “シャイラ”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಘಾಜ್ರ”
- Korean: “샤이라”
- Latvian: “Šgaira”
- Lithuanian: “Šgaira”
- Malay: “Xghajra”
- Maltese: “Xgħajra”
- Marathi: “क्सघाज्रा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Xgħajra”
- Norwegian: “Xgħajra”
- Polish: “Xgħajra”
- Portuguese: “Xgħajra”
- Russian: “Шайра”
- Sicilian: “Xgħajra”
- Sinhala: “එක්ස්ගජ්රා”
- Spanish: “Xgħajra”
- Swedish: “Ix-Xgħajra”
- Tamil: “ஸ்கஜ்ரா”
- Telugu: “జగాజ్రా”
- Thai: “ซักฮาจรา”
- Turkish: “Xghajra”
- Ukrainian: “Шайра”
- Urdu: “شایرا”
- Vietnamese: “Xghajra”
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