Referenced In

The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett

"until r 530 when they persuaded the Emperor Charles V to give them--Malta, Gozo, and Tripoli."

Travels
by Michael Crichton, Baber, E. C. Baber

"she informed me that I was from Malta, that I was an only child, and that I was in a business that had to do with food or restaurants and I had better watch out."