Orban's great bombard
Superbombarda de bronce de Orbán
- Date
- 1453 · confidence high
- Place
- Edirne, Turkey
- Credited to
- Orban (Hungarian founder) in the service of Mehmed II
- Field
- Conflict
What it is
Bronze cannon about 8 m long that fired stone balls weighing over 500 kg, cast in Edirne for the siege of Constantinople. Its impacts breached the Theodosian walls and marked the end of medieval fortifications.
The Dardanelles Gun (1464, Munir Ali), of similar design, is preserved at the Royal Armouries, Fort Nelson.
What it led to
- fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Ottoman heavy siege artillery
- star-shaped bastion fortification (trace italienne)