| Malta Open | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tournament information | |||
| Dates | 30 November 2002 | ||
| Country | Malta | ||
| Organisation(s) | BDO, WDF, MDA | ||
| Winner's share | Lm 500 | ||
| Champion(s) | |||
 John Graham | |||
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2002 Malta Open is a darts tournament, which took place in Malta in 2002. [1]
| Malta Open | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tournament information | |||
| Dates | 30 November 2002 | ||
| Country | Malta | ||
| Organisation(s) | BDO, WDF, MDA | ||
| Winner's share | Lm 500 | ||
| Champion(s) | |||
| John Graham | |||
| |||
2002 Malta Open is a darts tournament, which took place in Malta in 2002. [1]
| Round | Player |
|---|---|
| Winner | John Graham |
| Final |  Roy Turner |
| Semi-finals |  Colin Rice |
 Derek Williams | |
| Quarter-finals |  George Trypiniotis |
| Matt Clark | |
 Joe Caruana | |
| Mario Camilleri |
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies 80 km (50 mi) south of Sicily (Italy), 284 km (176 mi) east of Tunisia, and 333 km (207 mi) north of Libya. The official languages are Maltese and English, and 66% of the current Maltese population is at least conversational in the Italian language.
Malta has a long history and was first inhabited in around 5900 BC. The first inhabitants were farmers, and their agricultural methods degraded the soil until the islands became uninhabitable. The islands were repopulated around 3850 BC by a civilization which at its peak built the Megalithic Temples, which today are among the oldest surviving buildings in the world. Their civilization collapsed in around 2350 BC, but the islands were repopulated by Bronze Age warriors soon afterwards.
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Slavery in Malta existed and was recognised from classical antiquity until the early modern period, as was the case in many countries around the Mediterranean Sea. The system reached its apex under Hospitaller rule, when it took on unprecedented proportions, largely to provide galley slaves for the galleys of the Order, as well as other Christian countries. Commerce raids, which were the backbone of the Knights' economic military system helped to maintain this system, partly through creating the demand for slaves to maintain the military fleet, but also due to the influx of Muslim prisoners when battles were won. Thus Malta became the hub of slavery in Christian Europe. Slavery was abolished in Malta by Napoléon Bonaparte during his invasion of the Maltese archipelago on 16 June 1798.
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