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Intruders have been leaving their footprints ever since: Phoenicians, Romans, Pisans, Catalans, billionaire yachtsmen, crabby and indolent writers.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2014

The request was ignored by Pisans, who complained that a reduced water supply would greatly inconvenience the townspeople and local industry in the middle of a hot summer.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the war continued the Pisans suffered more and more.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

But quarrels broke out with the Pisans, who were his allies, and with Pope Innocent, for whose cause he was fighting, and he finally set out for Germany, without even visiting Rome.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard

His cavalry came by land, crossing the mountains of Pontremoli, and arrived at Serrazzano, which was held by the Pisans, and then took the way of the seacoast with an escort as far as Pisa.

From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Villani, Giovanni