For other uses, see Maltese cross (disambiguation).
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The Maltese cross is a cross symbol, consisting of four "V" or arrowhead shaped concave quadrilaterals converging at a central vertex at right angles, two tips pointing outward symmetrically.
It is a heraldic cross variant which developed from earlier forms of eight-pointed crosses in the 16th century. Although chiefly associated with the Knights Hospitaller (Order of St. John, now the Sovereign Military Order of Malta), and by extension with the island of Malta, it has come to be used by a wide array of entities since the early modern period,
notably the Order of Saint Stephen, the city of Amalfi, the Polish Order of the White Eagle (1709), the Prussian order Pour le Mérite (1740), and the Bavarian Military Merit Order (1866).
Unicode defines a character named "Maltese cross" in the Dingbats range at code point U+2720 (✠); however most computer fonts render the code point as a cross pattée.
corner. The Maltese euro coins of 1- and 2-euro denomination carry the Maltesecross. It is also the trademark of KM Malta Airlines, Malta's national airline...
flag of Malta (Maltese: Il-Bandiera ta' Malta) is a bicolour, with white in the hoist and red in the fly. A representation of the George Cross, awarded...
The George Cross was awarded to the island of Malta by King George VI during the Siege of Malta undertaken by Italy and Germany in the early part of World...
withstand substantial mechanical stress. The Geneva drive is also called a "Maltesecross mechanism" due to the visual resemblance when the rotating wheel has...
losing player's remaining pip count to form the score of the game. MalteseCross is a variant of Sebastopol for 2–4 players. Like Sebastopol, it uses...
cuisine Maltese culture Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people Maltese people, people from Malta or of Maltese descent Maltese dog...
Silene chalcedonica (syn. Lychnis chalcedonica), the Maltese-cross or scarlet lychnis, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae,...
Malta (/ˈmɒltə/ MOL-tə, /ˈmɔːltə/ MAWL-tə, Maltese: [ˈmɐːltɐ]), officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in southern Europe, located in the...
activities, and bears a white Maltesecross on a red field. Both flags together represent the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Its constitution states:...
The Maltese (Maltese: Maltin) people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language and share a common culture and Maltese history...
asylum may be granted by the Order and generally the Maltese courts have full jurisdiction and Maltese law shall apply. The second bilateral treaty mentions...
four design themes – Prehistoric Malta, Renaissance Malta, The Maltese Identity and The Maltese Archipelago. Three different options were presented for...
Mario. "L-Istorja tal-Ilsien Malti" [History of the Maltese Language]. L-Akkademja tal-Malti (in Maltese). Archived from the original on 23 September 2015...
'electron'. Julius Plücker in 1869 built a tube with an anode shaped like a MalteseCross facing the cathode. It was hinged, so it could fold down against the...
brand and the aircraft livery would continue to incorporate the MalteseCross. Malta's finance minister, Clyde Caruana, announced that when the new airline...
A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars, usually perpendicular to each other. The lines usually run vertically and...
selling screen-printed T-shirts and stickers with the company's Iron cross/Maltesecross logo while founder and "master marketer" Jesse James was finishing...
StareMapy.sk". www.staremapy.sk. Retrieved 29 March 2022. "The Myth of the "Maltese" Cross in the American Fire Service". 9 August 2020. Wikimedia Commons has...
vary in different countries but always contain the eight-pointed white Maltesecross as the essential identifier. Like the Order, St John Ambulance associations...
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