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In 1113 Pisa and the Pope Paschal II set up, together with the count of Barcelona and other contingents from Provence and Italy ( Genoese excluded ), a war to free the Balearic Islands from the Moors: the queen and the king of Majorca were brought in chains to Tuscany.

Even though the Almoravides soon reconquered the island, the booty taken helped the Pisans in their magnificent programme of buildings, especially the cathedral and Pisa gained a role of pre-eminence in the Western Mediterranean.