Assertion: empire | /r/HasProperty | short
Facets:
value: on funds
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: When in late November 1203 Alexios IV announced that his promises were hard to keep as the empire was short on funds (he had managed to pay roughly half of the promised amount of 200,000 silver marks, and could not fulfil his promise that he would cover the Venetians' rent of the fleet for the crusaders.), the crusaders declared war on him.