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Il-Kalkara

Kalkara

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.
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  • Type: Village with 3,010 residents
  • Description: village in Malta
  • Also known as: “Il-Kalkara”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Joseph Parish Church and Fort Ricasoli.

Church
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a bastioned fort in Kalkara, Malta, which was built by the Order of Saint John between 1670 and 1698. The fort occupies a promontory known as Gallows' Point and the north shore of Rinella Bay, commanding the entrance to the along with .

Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a bastioned fort in , , located at the centre of the . It was originally built in the medieval period as a castle called the Castrum Maris.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Birgu and Cospicua.

Town
Photo: Xwejnusgozo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known by its title Città Vittoriosa, is an old fortified city on the south side of the in the Port Region of . The city occupies a promontory of land with Fort Saint Angelo at its head and the city of at its base.

Town
Photo: SpectreOfMalta, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Bormla is a double-fortified harbour city in the Port Region of . It served as the principal port of Phoenician Malta and, through Greek, Latin, and Arabic, may have given its name to the island and country.

Town
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, also known by its title Città Invicta, is a fortified city in the Port Region of . It is one of the in the area, the other two being and Vittoriosa, and has a population of approximately 2,720 people.

Kalkara

Latitude
35.88988° or 35° 53′ 24″ north
Longitude
14.52909° or 14° 31′ 45″ east
Population
3,010
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT KAL
Open location code
8F7PVGQH+XJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 130930586
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2562830
Wiki­data ID
Q533257
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kalkara” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kalkara”
  • Arabic: “القلقرة”
  • Arabic: “القَلْقَرَةُ”
  • Arabic: “کالکارا”
  • Aragonese: “Kalkara”
  • Armenian: “Կալկարա”
  • Arpitan: “Kalkara”
  • Asturian: “Kalkara”
  • Basque: “Kalkara”
  • Bavarian: “Kalkara”
  • Bengali: “কালকারা”
  • Breton: “Kalkara”
  • Catalan: “Kalkara”
  • Cebuano: “Il-Kalkara”
  • Chinese: “卡尔卡拉”
  • Chinese: “卡爾卡拉”
  • Corsican: “Kalkara”
  • Croatian: “Kalkara”
  • Czech: “Kalkara”
  • Danish: “Kalkara”
  • Dutch: “Kalkara”
  • Esperanto: “Kalkara”
  • Estonian: “Kalkara”
  • Finnish: “Kalkara”
  • French: “Il-Kalkara”
  • French: “Kalkara”
  • Friulian: “Kalkara”
  • Galician: “Kalkara”
  • German: “Kalkara”
  • Greek: “Καλκάρα”
  • Gujarati: “કલકારા”
  • Hindi: “कलकारा”
  • Hungarian: “Kalkara”
  • Icelandic: “Kalkara”
  • Ido: “Kalkara”
  • Indonesian: “Kalkara”
  • Interlingua: “Kalkara”
  • Interlingue: “Kalkara”
  • Irish: “Kalkara”
  • Italian: “Calcara”
  • Italian: “Kalkara”
  • Japanese: “カルカラ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಲ್ಕರಾ”
  • Kongo: “Kalkara”
  • Korean: “칼카라”
  • Latin: “Kalkara”
  • Latvian: “Kalkara”
  • Ligurian: “Kalkara”
  • Limburgan: “Kalkara”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalkara”
  • Low German: “Kalkara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kalkara”
  • Malagasy: “Kalkara”
  • Malay: “Kalkara”
  • Maltese: “Il-Kalkara”
  • Maltese: “Kalkara”
  • Marathi: “कलकारा”
  • Minangkabau: “Kalkara”
  • Narom: “Kalkara”
  • Neapolitan: “Kalkara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalkara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalkara”
  • Norwegian: “Kalkara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kalkara”
  • Persian: “کالکارا”
  • Picard: “Kalkara”
  • Piemontese: “Kalkara”
  • Polish: “Kalkara”
  • Portuguese: “Kalkara”
  • Romanian: “Kalkara”
  • Romansh: “Kalkara”
  • Russian: “Калькара”
  • Sardinian: “Kalkara”
  • Scots: “Kalkara”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kalkara”
  • Serbian: “Kalkara”
  • Sicilian: “Kalkara”
  • Sinhala: “කල්කරා”
  • Slovak: “Kalkara”
  • Slovenian: “Kalkara”
  • Spanish: “Kalkara”
  • Swahili: “Kalkara”
  • Swedish: “Il-Kalkara (kommun i Malta)”
  • Swedish: “Il-Kalkara”
  • Swedish: “Kalkara”
  • Swiss German: “Kalkara”
  • Tamil: “கல்கார”
  • Telugu: “కల్కారా”
  • Thai: “คาลคารา”
  • Turkish: “Kalkara”
  • Ukrainian: “Калкара”
  • Ukrainian: “Калькара”
  • Urdu: “کالکارا”
  • Venetian: “Kalkara”
  • Vietnamese: “Kalkara”
  • Vlaams: “Kalkara”
  • Volapük: “Kalkara”
  • Walloon: “Kalkara”
  • Welsh: “Kalkara”
  • Wolof: “Kalkara”
  • Zulu: “Kalkara”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kalkara”. Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.