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Maritime Republic Legacy

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For three centuries, Pisa stood among the dominant sea powers of the western Mediterranean, its galleys reaching every harbor from Sardinia to the Levant and its naval victories over the Saracens earning the city privileged access to markets that lesser powers could not enter. The defeat at Meloria in 1284 diminished our fleet, but could not erase what those centuries of seaborne commerce built; our captains know these waters, our traders know their counterparts in every port, and the routes that made us great are still routes that we can sail. Our seafaring legacy gives our merchants an edge in the Western trade over any landlocked rival, and the memory of maritime greatness drives us to rebuild what was taken from us.

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