For 10 points, name this country whose capital is named after Jean Parisot de Valette, a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
A ruler of this country was the target of a 1749 assassination plot by Muslim slaves and attempted to unite it with the Bailiwick of Brandenburg. A group based in this country made Paul I of Russia its leader after Ferdinand von Hompesch surrendered it to Napoleon. A rebellion in this country that was partly sparked by a ban on hunting rabbits ended with its rebels imprisoned at Fort St. Elmo. The admiral Dragut was killed while leading an Ottoman siege against this country, then ruled by the Order of Saint John, which acquired it in exchange for an annual tribute of a falcon to Charles V. For 10 points, name this country whose capital is named after Jean Parisot de Valette, a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
A ruler of this country was the target of a 1749 assassination plot by Muslim slaves and attempted to unite it with the Bailiwick of Brandenburg.
Malta [or Republic of Malta; or Repubblika ta' Malta] &lt;Shimizu&gt;