Melita
Melita may refer to:
Places
- Melite (ancient city), an ancient city on the site of modern Mdina, Malta
- Melita, California, former town
- Melita (ancient port city), near city of Melitopol in southeast Ukraine
- Melita, Manitoba, Canada
- Mljet (Latin: Melita), island in the Dalmatia region of Croatia
- Melita, Michigan
People
- Melita Norwood, a KGB spy in the United Kingdom
- Melita Ruhn, 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 (1899–1967), Duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein
Other uses
- "Melita", name of the tune to the hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" (also known as the "Navy Hymn" because of associations of Paul's shipwreck at Malta [Acts 27] with the island of Malta during World War II)
- Melita (personification), the allegorical figure of Malta
- HMS Melita, name of two warships of the Royal Navy
- Melita F.C., a football (soccer) club in Malta
- Melita (telecommunications company), a telecommunications company in Malta
- Melita Stadium, in Chester Hill, New South Wales, Australia
See also
- Melitta, Germany-based company selling coffee, paper coffee filters, and coffee makers
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