The citizen and the state; industrial and social life and the empire . VALETTA, MALTA turned into an actual island by digging a canal not aquarter of a mile long. 5. Malta.—Malta, situated in the middle of theMediterranean, is a nourishing and populous islandheld by England fur military and naval purposessince 1814. With the two small islands of Gozoand Comino, tlie population in 1911 was over228,000. fhe Maltese are a race apart, and speaka language of probably Semitic character, whicli isjiartly of Arabic origin. Though the administration CROWN COLONIES 175 is that of a Crown Colony, the peo
The citizen and the state; industrial and social life and the empire . VALETTA, MALTA turned into an actual island by digging a canal not aquarter of a mile long. 5. Malta.—Malta, situated in the middle of theMediterranean, is a nourishing and populous islandheld by England fur military and naval purposessince 1814. With the two small islands of Gozoand Comino, tlie population in 1911 was over228,000. fhe Maltese are a race apart, and speaka language of probably Semitic character, whicli isjiartly of Arabic origin. Though the administration CROWN COLONIES 175 is that of a Crown Colony, the people elect a Councilwhich is allowed to have a large share in the governmentof the island. Malta is the station of our Mediterraneanfleet, mid we also maintain there a large force of Gibraltar.—Gibraltar is a huge mass of rockclose to the mainland of Spain, find situated at theentrance to the Mediterranean, which at this point isonly some seven miles broad. The Rock, as it is. GIBRALTAR called, is very strongly fortified, and is manned by aforce of about 5000 soldiers. The fine harbour andnew dockyard form the chief naval base for ourAtlantic fleet. The civil population was 19,120in 1911. 7. Cyprus.—Cyprus, an island off the coast of AsiaMinor, is not, strictly speaking, a portion of the BritishEmpire, but remains nominally part of the possessionsof Turkey under an agreement with the Sultan madein 1878. Since, however, it is garrisoned by English 176 THE BRITISH EMPIRE chap. soldiers and governed by English officials, under aHigh Commissioner, it differs very little from a Britishpossession. In 1911 the population was 274,000,of whom nearly a quarter were Moslems, while theresidue belonged to the Greek Church. Eastern Croivn Colonies, etc. 8. Ceylon.—The great dependency of India mustbe treated separately, but there are a number of CrownColonies in the eastern hemisphere which should beenumerated here. Chief among these is Ceylon, thelarge island which
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