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The Knights of Malta, a sovereign entity (part of the U.N. General Assembly) with 13,500 knights, 40,000 doctors and a further 80,000 volunteers. They have only 2 official citizens, but they still issue passports, coins and postage stamps despite having no physical land or territory

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During the Great Siege of Malta, an Ottoman general beheaded nine Maltese knights and sent them across the bay on mock crucifixes. The Maltese general responded by beheading all of his Turkish prisoners and shooting their heads out cannons across the bay again towards the Ottomans.

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1. In 2017 Pope Francis took over Knights of Malta after condom dispute, and effectively gained territory for the Vatican

2. The Knights Hospitaller, aka the Knights of Malta or Knights of St John, are still on the go and running medical services as a sovereign entity.

3. After being forced away from Malta a few years earlier by Napoleon. The Knights Hospitaller/Knights of Saint John was offered sovereignty of the Island of Gotland by the Swedish government. An offer which they rejected since accepting it would mean giving up their claim on Malta.

4. The Maltese Falcon was a customary annual tribute of a live falcon paid by the Knights of Malta to the monarchs of Sicily, granting them control of Tripoli, Malta & Gozo, which lasted from 1530 to 1798.

5. During the Great Siege of Malta, the Ottoman Empire had captured knights decapitated and crucified in a mocking fashion. In retaliation, the Knights Hospitaller executed Turkish prisoners who had the plague, loaded their heads into cannons, and fired them into the Turkish camp.

6. That, despite renting an apartment block in Italy since Napoleon kicked them out of Malta in 1798, the Knights of Malta maintain their status as an independent nation. Over 100 countries recognize their independence, several times more than those which currently recognize Taiwan's.

7. The smallest nation to colonize the Americas were the Knights Hospitaller who ruled only the island of Malta in Europe.

8. The Knights of Malta (Knights Hospitallier), a middle ages Order, is still around.