Republic of Pisa
de facto independent state centered on the Tuscan city of Pisa from the late 10th to 15th centuries
Key facts
- 1063
- Giovanni Orlandi
- Capital
- Pisa
- Common languages
- Tuscan Latin Italian
- Religion
- Roman Catholicism
- Government
- Oligarchic republic
- 1081 1189
- Consul
- 1202 1312
- Consiglio degli Anziani
- 1402 1406
- Gabriele Maria Visconti
- Historical era
- Middle Ages
- Established
- c. 1000
- Participation in the third crusade
- 1189–1192
- Currency
- Grosso pisano , aquilino
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The Republic of Pisa (Italian: Repubblica di Pisa) was an independent state existing from the 11th to the 15th century, centered on the Tuscan city of Pisa. It rose to become an economic powerhouse, a commercial center whose merchants dominated Mediterranean and Italian trade for a century, before being surpassed and superseded by the Republic of Genoa.
The republic's participation in the Crusades secured valuable commercial positions for Pisan traders, leading to increased wealth and power. Pisa was a historical rival to Genoa at sea and to Florence and Lucca on land. It lost its independence to Florence in 1406.
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