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Name - Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme, di Rodi, di Malta e di Minorca (Italian) / Sobirà Militar Orde Hospitaler de Sant Joan de Jerusalem, de Rodes, de Malta i de Menorca (Catalan) / Ordinis Hospitalarii Militaris Sancti Ioannis Ierosolimitani, Rhodi, Melitensis et Minoricae (Latin) / Soberana Orden Militar Hospitalaria de San Juan de Jerusalén, de Rodas, de Malta y de Menorca (Spanish)
Head of state - Grand Master --------
Head of government - President of the Council of Administration --------
Legislature - Council of Administration
Judiciary - Tribunal of Civil Affairs
Form of government - Theocratic elective monarchy under a democratic ministerial confidential constitution
Population - 146,000
Area - 695.8 km^2
Capital (and largest city) - Ciutadella
Language - Italian, Catalan, Latin, Spanish
Time zone -
Currency - Minorcan scudo
Anthem - Ave Crux Alba
Motto - Pro Fide Pro Utilitate Hominum
History
-in the wake of French Wars > First French War (1792-1804), British Isles gets Minorca
-serves as very important naval base for the British in the region
-however, during French Wars > Second French War (1821-32), Franco-Spanish fleet invades Minorca in 1825, try to get it
-simultaneously Franco-Italian fleet occupies Malta, takes over lands of Knights Hospitaller
-causes shock across Europe as Knights Hospitaller respected
-British Isles gets Popular Revolution Heads of British Isles > ^ff21d6, in the middle of Franco-Spanish fleet invading Minorca
-massive confusion, but part of Franco-British peace treaty is that Knights Hospitaller (or rather a remnant of it) granted compensation for Malta in the form of Minorca in 1828
-Spain, fearing alliance b/w Britain and France crushing it, reluctantly accepts it
-Knights Hospitaller re-create themselves in Minorca
-a fair amount of migration from Italy, particularly from Naples
-quickly forms as neutral port
-campaigns against piracy, however this has for the most part been totally destroyed by French Algiers misadventure