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A kartouwe is a siege gun used in European warfare during the 16th and 17th centuries. The name kartouwe is of Dutch origin, a corruption of Latin quartana. In the Holy Roman Empire the gun was called Kartaune in German or cartouwe in contemporary Latin usage, in the Swedish Empire Kartow, spelling variants include kartouw, kartouve, cartow, cartaun, courtaun, and others.

Characteristics
Kartouwen were developed from bombards. As a minimum, twenty horses or oxen were needed to move a kartouwe. half ("halve") and quarter kartouwen. The barrel length of a half-kartouwe is 32 to 34 times the caliber, which ranges between and . ==Use and perception==
Use and perception
Kartouwen were used for example in the Livonian War by the Russian As such, they were featured in contemporary poems, In his 1844 poem Die Tendenz, Heinrich Heine used kartouwen to symbolize loudness. ==Sources==
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