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Encyclopedia > Pisa (disambiguation)

There are several places and features called Pisa.

  • Pisa, a city in Tuscany, Italy.
  • Pisa River in Poland.
  • Pisa, or Pisatis, was the name of an ancient Greek town in Elis.
  • PISA, the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment [1] (http://www.pisa.oecd.org/).

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Pisa - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article (3079 words)
Pisa (population 85,379) is a city in Tuscany, northern Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
In 1113 Pisa and the Pope Paschal II set up, together with the count of Barcelona and other contigents from Provence and Italy (Genoese excluded), a war to free the Balearic Islands from the Moors: the queen and the king of Mallorca are brought in chain to Tuscany.
Pisa was the birthplace of the founder of modern physics, Galileo Galilei.
The Ultimate Pisa - American History Information Guide and Reference (476 words)
Pisa (population 90,000) is a city in Tuscany, Italy at the mouth of the river Arno on the Mediterranean.
Pisa always sided with the pro-imperial Ghibellines, actively supporting emperors such as Frederick Barbarossa, Frederick II and Henry VII.
Those emperors acknowledged Pisa independence and were grateful for its loyalty such that the town was chosen to host the spoils of Henry King of Germans, the son of Frederick II.
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