Melita
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Melita may refer to:

Places
  • Malta
    Malta
    Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

    , a European country in the Mediterranean sea (Melita in Greek and Latin, malat in Phoenician)
  • Melita, California
    Melita, California
    Melita is a former settlement in Alameda County, California, United States. It was located southwest of Brooklyn.A post office operated in Monte Vista from 1869 to 1871.-References:...

    , former town
  • Melita, Manitoba
    Melita, Manitoba
    Melita is a town located in the southwestern corner of the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Arthur and occupies a bend of the Souris River. The population, as of the 2006 census, is 1,051. It sits at the junction of Highways 3 and 83, approx....

    , Canada
  • Mljet
    Mljet
    Mljet is the most southerly and easterly of the larger Adriatic islands of the Dalmatia region of Croatia. The National Park includes the western part of the island, Veliko jezero, Malo jezero, Soline Bay and a sea belt 500 m wide from the most prominent cape of Mljet covering an area of...

    , (Melita in Greek and Latin)


People
  • Melita Norwood
    Melita Norwood
    Melita Stedman Norwood, née Sirnis, was a British civil servant, traitor and KGB intelligence source who, for a period of about 40 years following her recruitment in 1937, supplied the KGB with state secrets from her job at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association...

    , a KGB spy in the United Kingdom
  • Melita Ruhn
    Melita Ruhn
    Melita Ruhn is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1980 Summer Olympics.She won three olympic medals for Romania and scored a perfect ten for the vault optionals in the team competition of the 1980 Olympic Games...

    , a Romanian gymnast
  • Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1876–1936), member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria
  • Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
    Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
    Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was the Duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein as the wife of Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein...

     (1899–1967), Duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein


Other uses
  • "Melita", name of the tune to the hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save
    Eternal Father, Strong to Save
    "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" is a hymn often associated with the Royal Navy or the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. Accordingly, it is often known as the Royal Navy Hymn or the United States Navy Hymn , and sometimes by the last line of its first verse, "For Those in Peril on...

    ", also known as the "Navy Hymn" due to associations with the island of Malta during World War II
  • HMS Melita
    HMS Melita
    Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Melita, named after the island of Malta:, launched in 1888 was a Mariner-class composite screw sloop, the only Royal Navy warship ever built in Malta. She swapped names with HMS Ringdove in 1915 and was sold as a salvage vessel to Falmouth Docks...

    , name of two warships of the Royal Navy
  • Melita F.C.
    Melita F.C.
    Melita Football Club is a Maltese football club that represents the town of St. Julian's. The team currently plays in the First Division, Malta's second level of football.-Origins:...

    , a football (soccer) club in Malta
  • Melita (telecommunication company)
    Melita (telecommunication company)
    The Melita Group, is a diversified telecommunications provider offering home entertainment and telecommunications services to consumer and business customers throughout the Republic of Malta. The Melita group of companies offer IP based digital cable TV, broadband Internet, fixed-line telephony,...

     a telecommunications company in Malta
  • Melita Stadium
    Melita Stadium
    Melita Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Chester Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It is mainly used for football and is the home ground for the Parramatta Eagles team and the Parramatta Ladyhawks Women's Super League team. The stadium has a capacity of 10,000 people.Melita Stadium is home to...

    , in Chester Hill, New South Wales, Australia

See also

  • Melitta
    Melitta
    Melitta is a Germany-based company selling coffee, paper coffee filters, and coffee makers, part of the Melitta Group, which also has Melitta branches in other countries world-wide...

    , Germany-based company selling coffee, paper coffee filters, and coffee makers
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