Imagining A Different Malta!

I put this OP in the post 1900 section, which was on full consideration not the best forum. So how could Malta be different and what would the implications for the world be?
 

JJohnson

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Malta could've been part of the British Commonwealth to this day. Perhaps they decide to do so, and UK citizens decide to emigrate there as well. Most of the population already speaks English, so it's possible that Maltese suffers in the face of English cultural influence and immigration. By 2012, I could see the island being roughly 65-85% Maltese and 15-35% British if history is otherwise the same.
 

Wolfpaw

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In a "Rome Survives" TL I like to kick around, Malta becomes the center of Christianity and seat of the Pope, dotted with monasteries and churches and the centers of the various Monastic Orders which defend the island from pirates and sin. The main language among the clerocracy is Greek, but locals tend to speak something akin to a Greco-Arabic patois.
 
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