Cetbang
Sign in to saveAlso known as coak, warastra
thumb|Bronze hand cannon cetbang, found in the Brantas River|Brantas river, Sumberagung village, Jombang, East Java. The mouth of the cannon is on the right, while the left is where the pole is attached.
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Description
- Eastern-style cetbang
- Western-style cetbang
- History
- Majapahit era (ca. 1300–1478)
- Majapahit decline and the rise of Islam (1478–1600)
- Colonial era (1600–1945)
- Surviving examples
- Gallery
- Similar weapons
- See also
- Notes
- References
thumb|Bronze hand cannon cetbang, found in the Brantas River|Brantas river, Sumberagung village, Jombang, East Java. The mouth of the cannon is on the right, while the left is where the pole is attached.
Cetbang (originally known as bedil, also known as warastra or meriam coak) were cannons produced and used by the Majapahit Empire (1293–1527) and other kingdoms in the Indonesian archipelago. There are 2 main types of cetbang: the eastern-style cetbang which looks like a Chinese cannon and is loaded from the front, and the western-style cetbang which is shaped like a Turkish and Portuguese cannon, loaded from the back.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cetbang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.