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Sicily should stay part of Italy, and Malta independent.
Malta should become part of Italy as a Sicilian province (like Messina or Catania)
Sicily should receive independence from Italy and unite with Malta.
Sicily should become independent from Italy but not unite with Malta.
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Emh, Sicily have richer history than Malta. Magna Graecia, Arhimedes, ... Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Friedrich II, Angevins, Catalans.... Churches, monasteries, mosaics,...
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However I prefer Norman Lowell's "IMPERIUM EVROPA" idea. As crazy as it might sound.
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When the South of Italy improves in some way, it could be a boon for Malta to join- obviously they are similar in culture. Of course, protection of the unique Maltese language (Punic?) should be priority as official language status along with Sicilian.
Add Calabria and possibly Apulia to the union as well. Hypothetically speaking it would be a good match. However, I don't know if Sicily is ready for this kind of thing.
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Maltese language is the result of Maghrebi Arabic and the Sicilian language (a distinct Romance language that had formed from Latin in western Sicily) fusing together. It's classified as a Semitic language but much of its vocabulary is from Sicilian.
Most "Arabs" in Sicily were Arabic-speaking native origin Sicilians, who would have been largely of ancient Greek heritage along with Phoenician and some Italian from the mainland. When these people were expelled by the Normans, most went to Malta, and that's where the Maltese language came from along with their surnames.
Before the Normans expelled them, Sicily was basically culturally akin to today's Malta in the west, and Greek-speaking Orthodox Christians in the east. Whichever culture was dominant should have become the dominant Sicilian culture. But that didn't happen and eventually the Greek east was Latinized.
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