mercantes
- Resource class
- Concept
- preferred label
- mercantes
- definition
- The is the social class of merchants in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean who are member of a recognized merchant guild and have certain political privileges based on this membership. This is a sociopolitical category in Genoa and its possessions, not an occupational category, although both are closely related.
- is in scheme
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Social Categories
- has broader
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populares
- has close match
- merchants