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Who was Valletta named after?

  • Jean Parisot de Valette

  • John of Jerusalem

  • Charles V

  • Philip II

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Valletta was named after Jean Parisot de Valette, a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller who successfully defended the island from an Ottoman invasion during the Great Siege of Malta.
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