Coat of Arms submitted by Keith Saliba
Since the name is of Aramaic origin, and we know that because of the final
"a"
in the name which is the Aramaic definite article, and since the name is
recorded in Arabic sources of the ninth century, i.e. about a hundred
years or so before the Crusades, the Maltese Saliba's must have migrated
from the Eastern Mediterranean, i.e. from places like Lebanon ,where there
are a whole lot of Salibas still there, Syria
and Palestine. The rest of the name means "The Crucified" of course
taken after Jesus Christ, thus designating the family as followers of the
crucified, i.e. Christians.
Other members of the family have also migrated to Sicily and Italy as is
well documented by the presence of such painters from the sixteenth
century as Antonello de Saliba and Pietro de Saliba.
Submitted by George A. Saliba
The Saliba / saleeby family of Lebanon/palestine/syria is directly
descended from the ancient kings of sparta. There is a book which was
printed in the USA in 1950 which contains the family history. It was
translated into english from the aramaic a few years prior. It details
the family history from about 500bc till modern times. I have a copy and
have typed out about half of it into Word for Windows text files.
gabriel ataya-saliba
Info submitted by smartboy@iprolink.co.nz
Salvus Saliba, Vincentuis Saliba, Matheus Saliba of Zurrieq,
went to Gozo
during the repopulation of Gozo of 1565-80.
Vincentius Salilba was a freed
slave when he went to Gozo
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- Angelica Saliba - (Baroness di San Marciano 1737)
- Antonio Saliba - (16th century), letterat u storjografu.
- Charles Saliba - (Maltese TV personality)
- Miss Jane Saliba - (1976 Miss Zurrieq)
- Dr Jeanette Saliba LL.D - (Marchioness di Fiddien 1978)
- Mr. Jesmond Saliba - (GM Smash Communications - Malta)
- Marianne Saliba - (NSW Australia State Member of Parliament)
- Mr. Naseeb Michael Saliba - (Founder of Tutor-Saliba Corporation)
- Matteo D. Saliba - (17th century), arkitett Malti.
- Matthew Saliba - (top Maltese Model who won the title of Mr. Maltese Islands (2002), will represent Malta in the Mr. World competition, he has also won innumerable awards for modelling including Male Model of the year 2001. You can view an article about him on this link:
- Napoleon Alexander Saliba - (1927-), tabib u awtur xjentifiku.
- Paul Saliba - (1927-), Segretarju Generali ta'l-A.K.M
- Peppi Saliba - (1807-83), minn Haz-Zebbug kien tassew Abd-el-Kader? Naraw skond Wilfred Blunt l-awtur tad-Desert Hawk. Abd el-Kaber and the French conquest of Algeria, igharrafna li Abd-el-Kader twieled fi Guetna ta'Oued el Hamman qrib Mascara, li hu bin Mahi ed Din, nisel il-Profeta, haken ta'Oran u li kellu erba' nisa.
- Sebastiano Saliba - (1710-70), arkitett Malti.
- Valerio Saliba - (17th century), pittur.
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