Assertion: empire's power | /r/CapableOf | crop up in ottoman history
Facets:
value: to the east
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: From the middle to the end of the empire, when it was on its long slow decline to collapse, the empire faced three main rival powers that crop up again and again in Ottoman history: to the east, the Persian Safavids; to the north, the tsars of Russia; and to the west, the Habsburgs.