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Il-Birgu

Birgu

Birgu, 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.
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  • Type: Town with 2,630 residents
  • Description: city in Malta
  • Also known as: “Citta Vittoriosa”, “Città Vittoriosa”, and “Vittoriosa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Inquisitor’s Palace and Maritime Museum.

Museum
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Inquisitor's Palace, also known as the Sacred Palace, is a palace in Birgu, . It was the seat of the Maltese Inquisition from 1574 to 1798, under the name Palazzo del Sant'Officio.

Museum
Photo: Jastrow, CC BY 2.5.
The Malta is a in Birgu, . It is housed in the former Royal Naval Bakery, which was built in the 1840s as the main bakery for the Mediterranean Fleet.

Monument
Photo: Qoan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The was an auberge in Birgu, . It was built to house knights of the Order of Saint John from the langue of Castille, León and Portugal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kalkara and Senglea.

Village
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

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.

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.

Birgu

Latitude
35.88811° or 35° 53′ 17″ north
Longitude
14.52385° or 14° 31′ 26″ east
Population
2,630
United Nations Location Code
MT BRG
Open location code
8F7PVGQF+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2522930881
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2562966
Wiki­data ID
Q752346
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Birgu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “البرج”
  • Arabic: “البُرْجُ”
  • Arabic: “بيرجو”
  • Armenian: “Բիրգու”
  • Basque: “Birgu”
  • Belarusian: “Біргу”
  • Bengali: “বিরগো”
  • Catalan: “Birgu”
  • Catalan: “Vittoriosa”
  • Cebuano: “Il-Birgu”
  • Chechen: “Биргу”
  • Chinese: “比尔古”
  • Chinese: “比爾古”
  • Chinese: “维托里奥萨”
  • Chinese: “维托里奥萨城”
  • Czech: “Birgu”
  • Czech: “Vittoriosa”
  • Danish: “Birgu”
  • Dutch: “Birgu”
  • Dutch: “Vittoriosa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيرجو”
  • Esperanto: “Birgu”
  • Esperanto: “Il-Birgu”
  • Esperanto: “Vittoriosa”
  • Finnish: “Birgu”
  • Finnish: “Città Vittoriosa”
  • Finnish: “Vittoriosa”
  • French: “Birgu”
  • French: “Citta Vittoriosa”
  • French: “Citta‘ Vittoriosa”
  • French: “Il-Birgu”
  • French: “Vittoriosa”
  • Georgian: “ბირგუ”
  • German: “Birgu”
  • German: “Vittoriosa”
  • Greek: “Μπίργκου”
  • Gujarati: “બિર્ગુ”
  • Hebrew: “בירגו”
  • Hebrew: “ויטוריוסה”
  • Hindi: “बिर्गु”
  • Hungarian: “Birgu”
  • Indonesian: “Birgu”
  • Italian: “Vittoriosa”
  • Japanese: “ビルグ”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ಗು”
  • Korean: “비르구”
  • Latin: “Burgus”
  • Latvian: “Birgu”
  • Lithuanian: “Birgu”
  • Lithuanian: “Vitorioza”
  • Macedonian: “Биргу”
  • Malay: “Birgu”
  • Maltese: “Birgu”
  • Marathi: “बिर्गु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Birgu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vittoriosa”
  • Norwegian: “Birgu”
  • Persian: “بیرگو”
  • Polish: “Birgu”
  • Polish: “Vittoriosa”
  • Portuguese: “Birgu”
  • Russian: “Биргу”
  • Russian: “Витториоза”
  • Serbian: “Birgu”
  • Serbian: “Città Vittoriosa”
  • Serbian: “Биргу”
  • Sicilian: “Birgu”
  • Sicilian: “Vittoriosa”
  • Silesian: “Birgu”
  • Sinhala: “බර්ගු”
  • Slovenian: “Birgu”
  • Slovenian: “Città Vittoriosa”
  • Slovenian: “Il-Birgu”
  • Slovenian: “Vittoriosa”
  • Spanish: “Birgu”
  • Spanish: “Vittoriosa”
  • Swedish: “Birgu”
  • Swedish: “Vittoriosa”
  • Tamil: “பீர்க்கு”
  • Tatar: “Биргу”
  • Telugu: “బిర్గ్యూ”
  • Thai: “บีร์กู”
  • Turkish: “Birgu”
  • Ukrainian: “Біргу”
  • Urdu: “بیرگو”
  • Vietnamese: “Birgu”
  • Yue Chinese: “比爾古”

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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 “Birgu”. Photo: Xwejnusgozo, CC BY-SA 3.0.