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Sliema, town, eastern Malta, situated on a headland between Marsamxett Harbour to the east and St. Julian’s Bay to the west. It faces Valletta southward across the harbour, with Fort TignĂ© dominating the entrance. The name Sliema is said to derive from a prayer that seamen invoked as they passed a church at the entrance to Marsamxett Harbour. Until the middle of the 19th century, Sliema contained the summer residences of well-to-do Maltese people. Some subsequently decided to reside there permanently, and today Sliema is a modern and prestigious residential community with a concentration of hotels and high-rise apartment blocks. St. Julian’s Tower, a medieval watchtower that was once used to spot corsairs, still stands on the northern Mediterranean seafront. Pop. (2007 est.) 11,850.

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