What is "melita"

Melita may refer to:

Melita p.l.c. is a Maltese telecommunications company established in 1992. It is a quadruple play provider that provides cable television, mobile telephone, broadband Internet, and fixed-line telephone services.

Melita was the first company to offer high-definition television in Malta through its Melita NetBox digital set-top box, introduced in 2010. In Malta there are only two telecommunication companies, Melita and GO, forming an oligopoly.

Melita is the personification of Malta or the Maltese people. The name originated from the Roman town of Melite (Μελίτη, Melite in Ancient Greek), which was the ancient capital of Malta which eventually developed into Mdina or Città Notabile.

The symbolic depiction of a country as a woman called by the Latin name of that country was common in the 19th Century (such as Britannia, Germania, Hibernia and Helvetia).