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Orban

Orban was a fifteenth-century cannon founder, usually described as Hungarian, who offered his services to Sultan Mehmed II. He cast the giant bombards used by the Ottomans in the siege of Constantinople in 1453. His guns illustrated the Ottoman Empire's early and effective use of gunpowder artillery.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Orban. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/orban
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The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Orban’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/orban (Accessed: ).

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