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The Sovereign That Has No Land: How Malta Kept Its Crown
A sovereign order on Malta must hold the island against a vast Ottoman armada - how does a state survive without territory, and what is at stake?
The Sovereign That Has No Land: How Malta Kept Its Crown
In this episode, we follow the centuries-long story of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from its origins as a hospice in Jerusalem to its fight for survival after losing territory twice. The episode traces how a papal charter, medieval hospitals, naval power and fragile feudal grants kept an institutional sovereignty alive - but how exactly did those pieces hold when land was taken away?…
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