Basilic

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The Basilic or Basilica cannon, i.e. 'royal gun', as the Greeks called it, also known as Urban's cannon or the Ottoman Cannon, was a very large-calibre cannon designed by Orban or Urban, a Hungarian cannon engineer, at a time when cannons were still new. It is one of the largest cannons ever built.

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