Italian Maltese

Italian Maltese are the Maltese people who supported Italian irredentism in Malta and believe the Maltese islands are part of Italy.
Characteristics
During the Middle Ages the Maltese islands were integrated with Sicily (even during the Arab conquest). The Normans united politically Malta to their Kingdom of Sicily and since then practically all the history of the Maltese islands was connected to southern Italy until Napoleonic times.
Officially Malta (even if ruled for some centuries by the Knights of Malta and later occupied by the French and the British) was part of the Kingdom of Sicily until the Congress of Vienna in 1814, when was given to Great Britain.
Indeed the Italian language was official in Malta until the 20th century, the nobility of Malta was made of Italian families (who moved to Malta mainly in the 13th century) and the culture of Malta was fully integrated with the Italian one even because based on Roman Catholicism....