Gunpowder Siege Artillery List
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Author?. 2010. Title?. David O. Morgan. Anthony Reid. ed. The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 3, The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. nb: I think it's Reuven Amitai. Armies and their economic basis in Iran and the surrounding lands, c. 1000-1500.§REF§" }, { "id": 153, "polity": { "id": 508, "name": "ir_ak_koyunlu", "long_name": "Ak Koyunlu", "start_year": 1339, "end_year": 1501 }, "year_from": 1500, "year_to": 1500, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "present", "comment": null, "description": " \"Towards the end of the fifteenth century the Aq Qoyunlu used captured Ottoman cannons, as well as having some locally cast ones for sieges.\"§REF§(? 2010, ?) Author?. 2010. Title?. David O. Morgan. Anthony Reid. ed. The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 3, The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. nb: I think it's Reuven Amitai. Armies and their economic basis in Iran and the surrounding lands, c. 1000-1500.§REF§" }, { "id": 154, "polity": { "id": 487, "name": "ir_susiana_archaic", "long_name": "Susiana - Muhammad Jaffar", "start_year": -7000, "end_year": -6000 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented yet" }, { "id": 155, "polity": { "id": 495, "name": "ir_elam_1", "long_name": "Elam - Awan Dynasty I", "start_year": -2675, "end_year": -2100 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " <i>Not invented at this time.</i>" }, { "id": 156, "polity": { "id": 362, "name": "ir_buyid_confederation", "long_name": "Buyid Confederation", "start_year": 932, "end_year": 1062 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 157, "polity": { "id": 502, "name": "ir_elam_8", "long_name": "Elam - Crisis Period", "start_year": -1100, "end_year": -900 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented at this time." }, { "id": 158, "polity": { "id": 507, "name": "ir_elymais_2", "long_name": "Elymais II", "start_year": 25, "end_year": 215 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 159, "polity": { "id": 486, "name": "ir_susiana_formative", "long_name": "Formative Period", "start_year": -7200, "end_year": -7000 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented yet" }, { "id": 160, "polity": { "id": 172, "name": "ir_il_khanate", "long_name": "Ilkhanate", "start_year": 1256, "end_year": 1339 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Often said that Chinggis \"used gunpowder in siege warfare, sapping and mining operations, during his western campaigns”. §REF§Bira, Sh. “THE MONGOLS AND THEIR STATE IN THE TWELFTH TO THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.” In History of Civilizations of Central Asia. Vol. IV: The Age of Achievement A.D. 750 to the End of the Fifteenth Century. Part I The Historical, Social and Economic Setting, edited by C. E. Bosworth, Muhammad S. Asimov, and Yar Muhammad Khan, 248-64. Paris: Unesco, 1998. p.259.§REF§ Raphael disputes the evidence for this and in any case the description are not of the use of gunpowder <i>artillery</i>. §REF§Raphael, Kate. “Mongol Siege Warfare on the Banks of the Euphrates and the Question of Gunpowder (1260-1312).” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, 19, no. 3 (July 1, 2009): 355-70.§REF§" }, { "id": 161, "polity": { "id": 488, "name": "ir_susiana_a", "long_name": "Susiana A", "start_year": -6000, "end_year": -5700 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented yet" }, { "id": 162, "polity": { "id": 489, "name": "ir_susiana_b", "long_name": "Susiana B", "start_year": -5700, "end_year": -5100 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented yet" }, { "id": 163, "polity": { "id": 491, "name": "ir_susiana_ubaid_2", "long_name": "Susiana - Late Ubaid", "start_year": -4700, "end_year": -4300 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented yet" }, { "id": 164, "polity": { "id": 490, "name": "ir_susiana_ubaid_1", "long_name": "Susiana - Early Ubaid", "start_year": -5100, "end_year": -4700 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented yet" }, { "id": 165, "polity": { "id": 499, "name": "ir_elam_5", "long_name": "Elam - Kidinuid Period", "start_year": -1500, "end_year": -1400 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " <i>Not invented at this time.</i>" }, { "id": 166, "polity": { "id": 500, "name": "ir_elam_6", "long_name": "Elam - Igihalkid Period", "start_year": -1399, "end_year": -1200 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " <i>Not invented at this time.</i>" }, { "id": 167, "polity": { "id": 501, "name": "ir_elam_7", "long_name": "Elam - Shutrukid Period", "start_year": -1199, "end_year": -1100 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " <i>Not invented at this time.</i>" }, { "id": 168, "polity": { "id": 503, "name": "ir_neo_elam_1", "long_name": "Elam I", "start_year": -900, "end_year": -744 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented at this time." }, { "id": 169, "polity": { "id": 504, "name": "ir_neo_elam_2", "long_name": "Elam II", "start_year": -743, "end_year": -647 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented at this time." }, { "id": 170, "polity": { "id": 505, "name": "ir_neo_elam_3", "long_name": "Elam III", "start_year": -612, "end_year": -539 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented at this time." }, { "id": 171, "polity": { "id": 125, "name": "ir_parthian_emp_1", "long_name": "Parthian Empire I", "start_year": -247, "end_year": 40 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Inferred as came later. §REF§DeVries, Kelly. \"cannon\" In The Oxford Companion to Military History. : Oxford University Press, 2001.§REF§" }, { "id": 172, "polity": { "id": 483, "name": "iq_parthian_emp_2", "long_name": "Parthian Empire II", "start_year": 41, "end_year": 226 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Inferred as came later. §REF§DeVries, Kelly. \"cannon\" In The Oxford Companion to Military History. : Oxford University Press, 2001.§REF§" }, { "id": 173, "polity": { "id": 485, "name": "ir_susiana_pre_ceramic", "long_name": "Pre-Ceramic Period", "start_year": -7800, "end_year": -7200 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented yet" }, { "id": 174, "polity": { "id": 509, "name": "ir_qajar_dyn", "long_name": "Qajar Dynasty", "start_year": 1794, "end_year": 1925 }, "year_from": 1800, "year_to": 1800, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": " Not as advanced in comparison to other large states of the period.§REF§(Ward 2014, 64) Steven R Ward. 2014. Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces. Georgetown University Press. Washington DC.§REF§ At the beginning of the period they had \"no functional heavy artillery\".§REF§(Ward 2014, 65) Steven R Ward. 2014. Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces. Georgetown University Press. Washington DC.§REF§ Qajars used the zanburak§REF§(Ward 2014, 65) Steven R Ward. 2014. Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces. Georgetown University Press. Washington DC.§REF§ (a gun mounted on a camel). The French \"helped to establish a cannon foundry and arsenal at Esfahan.\"§REF§(Ward 2014, 67) Steven R Ward. 2014. Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces. Georgetown University Press. Washington DC.§REF§" }, { "id": 175, "polity": { "id": 509, "name": "ir_qajar_dyn", "long_name": "Qajar Dynasty", "start_year": 1794, "end_year": 1925 }, "year_from": 1900, "year_to": 1900, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "present", "comment": null, "description": " Not as advanced in comparison to other large states of the period.§REF§(Ward 2014, 64) Steven R Ward. 2014. Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces. Georgetown University Press. Washington DC.§REF§ At the beginning of the period they had \"no functional heavy artillery\".§REF§(Ward 2014, 65) Steven R Ward. 2014. Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces. Georgetown University Press. Washington DC.§REF§ Qajars used the zanburak§REF§(Ward 2014, 65) Steven R Ward. 2014. Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces. Georgetown University Press. Washington DC.§REF§ (a gun mounted on a camel). The French \"helped to establish a cannon foundry and arsenal at Esfahan.\"§REF§(Ward 2014, 67) Steven R Ward. 2014. Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces. Georgetown University Press. Washington DC.§REF§" }, { "id": 176, "polity": { "id": 374, "name": "ir_safavid_emp", "long_name": "Safavid Empire", "start_year": 1501, "end_year": 1722 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "present", "comment": null, "description": " The Safavids used cannon for sieges rather than in the field. §REF§Rudi Matthee ‘SAFAVID DYNASTY’<a class=\"external free\" href=\"http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/safavids\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/safavids</a>§REF§ Siege cannon used in 1507 CE at Siege of Arantelia.§REF§(Roy 2014, 105) Roy, Kaushik. 2014. Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750: Cavalry, Guns, Government and Ships. A&C Black.§REF§" }, { "id": 177, "polity": { "id": 128, "name": "ir_sassanid_emp_1", "long_name": "Sasanid Empire I", "start_year": 205, "end_year": 487 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Inferred as came later. §REF§DeVries, Kelly. \"cannon\" In The Oxford Companion to Military History. : Oxford University Press, 2001.§REF§" }, { "id": 178, "polity": { "id": 130, "name": "ir_sassanid_emp_2", "long_name": "Sasanid Empire II", "start_year": 488, "end_year": 642 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 179, "polity": { "id": 108, "name": "ir_seleucid_emp", "long_name": "Seleucid Empire", "start_year": -312, "end_year": -63 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 180, "polity": { "id": 364, "name": "ir_seljuk_sultanate", "long_name": "Seljuk Sultanate", "start_year": 1037, "end_year": 1157 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 181, "polity": { "id": 496, "name": "ir_elam_2", "long_name": "Elam - Shimashki Period", "start_year": -2028, "end_year": -1940 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " The gunpowder was invented around 9th century AD, but the gunpowder artillery was in use since Middle Age. §REF§Needham 1987, 266.§REF§" }, { "id": 182, "polity": { "id": 497, "name": "ir_elam_3", "long_name": "Elam - Early Sukkalmah", "start_year": -1900, "end_year": -1701 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " The gunpowder was invented around 9th century AD, but the gunpowder artillery was in use since Middle Age. §REF§Needham 1987, 266.§REF§" }, { "id": 183, "polity": { "id": 498, "name": "ir_elam_4", "long_name": "Elam - Late Sukkalmah", "start_year": -1700, "end_year": -1500 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " <i>Not invented at this time.</i>" }, { "id": 184, "polity": { "id": 492, "name": "ir_susa_1", "long_name": "Susa I", "start_year": -4300, "end_year": -3800 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " Not invented at this time." }, { "id": 185, "polity": { "id": 493, "name": "ir_susa_2", "long_name": "Susa II", "start_year": -3800, "end_year": -3100 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " <i>Not invented at this time.</i>" }, { "id": 186, "polity": { "id": 494, "name": "ir_susa_3", "long_name": "Susa III", "start_year": -3100, "end_year": -2675 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " <i>Not invented at this time.</i>" }, { "id": 187, "polity": { "id": 115, "name": "is_icelandic_commonwealth", "long_name": "Icelandic Commonwealth", "start_year": 930, "end_year": 1262 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": "§REF§Axel Kristissen; Arni D Juliusson pers. comm. 2017§REF§" }, { "id": 188, "polity": { "id": 179, "name": "it_latium_ba", "long_name": "Latium - Bronze Age", "start_year": -1800, "end_year": -900 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 189, "polity": { "id": 178, "name": "it_latium_ca", "long_name": "Latium - Copper Age", "start_year": -3600, "end_year": -1800 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 190, "polity": { "id": 180, "name": "it_latium_ia", "long_name": "Latium - Iron Age", "start_year": -1000, "end_year": -580 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 191, "polity": { "id": 186, "name": "it_ostrogoth_k", "long_name": "Ostrogothic Kingdom", "start_year": 489, "end_year": 554 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 192, "polity": { "id": 189, "name": "it_st_peter_rep_2", "long_name": "Rome - Republic of St Peter II", "start_year": 904, "end_year": 1198 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null }, { "id": 193, "polity": { "id": 190, "name": "it_papal_state_1", "long_name": "Papal States - High Medieval Period", "start_year": 1198, "end_year": 1309 }, "year_from": 1200, "year_to": 1200, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " ”The exact moment of their invention is till a matter of dispute, but throughout the fourteenth century there is plenty of evidence of their use in Italy. Florence was already making cannon which fired iron balls in 1326, and the papal army in the fourteenth century was one of the best equipped in this respect.\" §REF§Michael Mallett (2009) Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy. Pen & Sword Military. Barnsley.§REF§" }, { "id": 194, "polity": { "id": 190, "name": "it_papal_state_1", "long_name": "Papal States - High Medieval Period", "start_year": 1198, "end_year": 1309 }, "year_from": 1250, "year_to": 1250, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": " ”The exact moment of their invention is till a matter of dispute, but throughout the fourteenth century there is plenty of evidence of their use in Italy. Florence was already making cannon which fired iron balls in 1326, and the papal army in the fourteenth century was one of the best equipped in this respect.\" §REF§Michael Mallett (2009) Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy. Pen & Sword Military. Barnsley.§REF§" }, { "id": 195, "polity": { "id": 190, "name": "it_papal_state_1", "long_name": "Papal States - High Medieval Period", "start_year": 1198, "end_year": 1309 }, "year_from": 1300, "year_to": 1300, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": true, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "present", "comment": null, "description": " ”The exact moment of their invention is till a matter of dispute, but throughout the fourteenth century there is plenty of evidence of their use in Italy. Florence was already making cannon which fired iron balls in 1326, and the papal army in the fourteenth century was one of the best equipped in this respect.\" §REF§Michael Mallett (2009) Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy. Pen & Sword Military. Barnsley.§REF§" }, { "id": 196, "polity": { "id": 190, "name": "it_papal_state_1", "long_name": "Papal States - High Medieval Period", "start_year": 1198, "end_year": 1309 }, "year_from": 1300, "year_to": 1300, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": true, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": " ”The exact moment of their invention is till a matter of dispute, but throughout the fourteenth century there is plenty of evidence of their use in Italy. Florence was already making cannon which fired iron balls in 1326, and the papal army in the fourteenth century was one of the best equipped in this respect.\" §REF§Michael Mallett (2009) Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy. Pen & Sword Military. Barnsley.§REF§" }, { "id": 197, "polity": { "id": 192, "name": "it_papal_state_3", "long_name": "Papal States - Early Modern Period I", "start_year": 1527, "end_year": 1648 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "present", "comment": null, "description": " ”The exact moment of their invention is till a matter of dispute, but throughout the fourteenth century there is plenty of evidence of their use in Italy. Florence was already making cannon which fired iron balls in 1326, and the papal army in the fourteenth century was one of the best equipped in this respect.\" §REF§Michael Mallett (2009) Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy. Pen & Sword Military. Barnsley.§REF§" }, { "id": 198, "polity": { "id": 193, "name": "it_papal_state_4", "long_name": "Papal States - Early Modern Period II", "start_year": 1648, "end_year": 1809 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "present", "comment": null, "description": " ”The exact moment of their invention is till a matter of dispute, but throughout the fourteenth century there is plenty of evidence of their use in Italy. Florence was already making cannon which fired iron balls in 1326, and the papal army in the fourteenth century was one of the best equipped in this respect.\" §REF§Michael Mallett (2009) Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy. Pen & Sword Military. Barnsley.§REF§" }, { "id": 199, "polity": { "id": 191, "name": "it_papal_state_2", "long_name": "Papal States - Renaissance Period", "start_year": 1378, "end_year": 1527 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "present", "comment": null, "description": " ”The exact moment of their invention is till a matter of dispute, but throughout the fourteenth century there is plenty of evidence of their use in Italy. Florence was already making cannon which fired iron balls in 1326, and the papal army in the fourteenth century was one of the best equipped in this respect.\" §REF§Michael Mallett (2009) Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy. Pen & Sword Military. Barnsley.§REF§" }, { "id": 200, "polity": { "id": 187, "name": "it_ravenna_exarchate", "long_name": "Exarchate of Ravenna", "start_year": 568, "end_year": 751 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Gunpowder_siege_artillery", "gunpowder_siege_artillery": "absent", "comment": null, "description": null } ] }