The central Mediterranean

The central Mediterranean appears to have five contenders for islands (or towns) called Melite or Melita in the Roman era. (A sixth city is Malatya in Turkey). First, the western island called Gharbi, or even Melitta, in the Kerkennah group off eastern Tunisia. Second, the lotus island called Djerba has its airport at a place called Melitta. Incidentally, Melitta and Melita are often interchangeable in North Africa. There has been no ancient or modern African or Tunisian claim for St Paul being shipwrecked on any of these islands. At the centre of the Mediterranean near Gozo lies Malta, ancient Melita Africana, courtesy of the late scholar Paul Guillaumier.

He is supported by translators from the original Greek of St Luke’s Acts of the Apostles, 27-28, who all opt for Malta.
On the island of Cephalonia lies the main town of Argostoli. Lately Dr Warnecke has claimed a place called Melita on this eastern Ionian island. His argument mainly covers snakes, religious processions and some geographical points.
Further north in the middle of the Adriatic lies the island of Mljet or ancient Meleda, which Abate Giorgi claimed in the Byzantine period to be Luke’s Melita.

The pivotal point concerns St Luke’s Acts mention, after the island of Melita, of the ancient main city of Syracuse in Sicily. Why is this seemingly elusive clue geographically so important? Because even today, if one sails vaguely north, with a southerly wind, from Malta, one is almost bound to land at Syracuse.
Malta figures clearly as a regular Roman port of call, on the grain ship route from Alexandria in Egypt. Melitta on Gharbi island in the Kerkennah group and also Djerba island were off the mark. Kefallinia island, north of Corfu, has weak and questionable evidence for Syracuse in the Ionian Sea, in my opinion. Meleda or Mljet is too far to the north in the Adriatic for sailing to anywhere but chiefly to Taranto, Ancona or Brindisi. Syracuse in Sicily is a credible option for Pozzuoli and Naples in western mainland Italy, which is the route Paul’s ship followed.
It transpires that the ship that had wintered on the island of Melita for some three months had also followed the route from Alexandria, Cyrene, Tripoli, Sabratha or Leptis Magna. It carried the sign of the Twin Brothers, or Twins, meaning the gods Castor and Pollux, known and venerated in temples all over the Roman empire, as protectors of seafarers.

The mention of Syracuse is the chief clue pointing to a departure from the island of Melita, 98 nautical miles to its south. Hence Luke’s Melite or Melita is almost irrefutably Malta. All ancient and modern translators and scholars of the New Testament are agreed on this important point, and on Malta’s significant claim.

Oznake: Mljet

There is no profit from Mljet National Park

In the Mljet National Park, property relations and property owners and public institutions are disordered. No maritime domain, no boundaries of private, state, church, fire readiness of the Board NP "Mljet" is weaker than before. They pointed out that in public appeal association to protect the rights of property owners and the preservation of the original value of the cadastral municipality Govedari with Mljet.

Inhabitants of Mljet are disappointed so in the beginning of March on Mljet held session of the Governing Council NP Mljet, where he was Assistant Secretary MENP Nenad Strizrep and other members of the Governing Council , and that they have not met with representatives of Local Board "Polače" , "Soline" and " Govedari" and representatives of the Municipality of Mljet nor discussed their written requests. They find that the tourist season on the island is threatened.

Oznake: Mljet

Makarska was named the safest city in Croatia 2013.

At the Sixth International Conference "Safety cities - SIGG of 2014." Split today for the best project in the security community was named Makarska, on the basis of regional competitions magazines protection. This recognition Makarska, as explained, was awarded the involvement of city Centre for Information Osejava, which has increased the level of security in the city in 2013th year.

The prize is handed to Makarska Mayor Tonći Bilić by Nikola Miljević, chief editor of protection, which together with the Croatian Forum for Urban Safety and conference organizer. Miljevic said Makarska Municipal Information Centre in one place regulating, organizing and planning tasks of video surveillance of public urban areas, is the operational communication center, managed by intelligent fire control system, distributed to local meteorological data. The Center has seizmografija, delivers important and urgent service information on the official website of the city, provides for the transmission of panoramic images, representing telecommunication management center utilities, organized labor rescue services and coordinate helicopter traffic.

Oznake: makarska