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Below is a brief history of Gozo

It dates back to 5000 BC, as a group from Sicily, was able to cross on some form of marine craft.

These people, first colonized in Gozo, to the Neolithic (5000 – 4100 BC) lived in caves near Mixta it on Ghajn Abdul.

This suggests that Gozo would have lived in Malta.

Temple period (4100 – 2500 BC) represents an important milestone in the cultural evolution of prehistoric man.
The largest companies in the pre-Phoenician Gozitan certainly gantija Temple (3600 – 3000 BC). These temples are documented as the oldest temple in the free world.
After the demise of the Temple of Man, the island was repopulated by any race.

The Bronze Age (2500 – 700 BC). Unlike their predecessors, these people were of the war, as people, the copper and bronze tools and weapons.

Remains to interesting, there are three dolmens on the Ta ‘
s? Plateau.

The Phoenicians and Carthaginians (700 – 218 BC) by the Phoenicians, the local ports, in a colony of Malta and Gozo.

About 550 BC, the Phoenicians of Carthage and the Carthaginians took, because it is better known, was master to 218 BC. At the beginning of the second Punic War 218 BC, the Carthaginians were ousted by the Romans (218 – 535 AD).

In a municipality of Gozo, Malta, irrespective of the nature with a footprint of republican government, that its own coins.

The Byzantines (535 – 870 AD), during the reign of the Roman Empire, the eastern islands.
Very little is known of the Byzantine period in Gozo. In 870 – 1127 was the only master of the Maltese archipelago Arabs.

The Arabs of residence is in many place names and family and, above all, by the name they gave to the island of Gozo – Għawdex that to survive until today.

The Domination (1127 – 1530), edited by Comte Roger Norman exempt the islands by the Arabs. In 1127 Norman took possession of the islands and for the same sort of Sicily during the reign of Swabia (1194), Angoué (1266) and Aragon (1282).

Around 1397, the Gozitan Universitas Gaudisii – a company to defend local interests. From there, the Gozitan fought for their old privileges and freedom.

Knights of St. John (1530 – 1798). Meanwhile, the islands, the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, a chivalric order officially in Jerusalem 1133rd

The island has suffered the worst in the history of siege. The citadel has been besieged by the Turks of Sinan Oasha. The entire population of around 5000 was as slaves. It should be more than 150 years before the Knight of the reality of a study unverteidigt Gozo. Accordingly, it is that hesitation, information pancake desperately in Gozitan character.

The French (1798 -1800) on 10 June 1798, under the french general Napoleon Bonaparte, pushing the Knights of Malta.
Of their dominance in Gozo was short-lived. In September, the public against the French, who on 18 October 1799 Submission to the Gozitan. Gozo enjoyed a short time of independence and on 5 September 1800 in the United Kingdom has the Maltese Islands under their protection.

The British (1800 – 1964) slowly transformed the islands of the colony to a fortress. His opposition to the axis of bombing during the Second World War is legendary.
Malta and Gozo is a sovereign independent state within the Commonwealth on 21 September 1964. On 13 December 1974, Malta was a republic. On 1 May 2004 of the Maltese Islands to the European Union.