Assertion: u.s.'s state | /r/RelatedTo | italian mercantile republics
Facets:
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Following the collapse of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and establishment of the Turkish Anatolian Beyliks, the Ahiler merchant fraternities established a state centered on Ankara that is sometimes compared to the Italian mercantile republics.