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Sokol Fortress

🇭🇷 Kroatien · 14. Jahrhundert

Sokol Fortress in Kroatien
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Land
🇭🇷 Kroatien
Typ
Burg
Bekanntheit
Geheimtipp
Jahrhundert
14. Jahrhundert
Gegründet
1400
Koordinaten
42.54194°, 18.40889°
Offene Daten
Wikidata Q12759022

Sokol (lit. 'Falcon') is the name of a medieval fortress located in the village of Dunave in Konavle, Croatia, underneath the eastern slopes of Sniježnica, near the border with Sutorina in Montenegro. It's also referred to as Sokol grad or Sokol kula.

Arthur J. Evans is known to have done excavations on the site, but never published complete results. Archaeologists have been conducting surveys of the site since the 1970s, and it is known that the site was inhabited in the Eneolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages, most notably by the Cetina culture. The site was also inhabited during Roman times, growing in importance as part of a Byzantine limes.

It is not known exactly when the medieval Fort Sokol was built, the first historical records about it date to a mention in 1373 and also a mention in the 1391 donation of Konavle by the Sanković family to the Republic of Ragusa. It was garrisoned by Dubrovnik and commanded by a member of the gentry until it was abandoned in 1672.

Text übernommen aus „Sokol (Konavle)“ auf Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sokol Fortress steht weltweit auf Platz 2.329 von 2.400 im Burgen-Bekanntheitsranking des Atlas und Nr. 28 der 28 in Kroatien verzeichneten. Gegründet 1400, ist es älter als 59% der datierten Objekte des Atlas — eines von 123 Atlas-Objekten, die im 14. Jahrhundert gegründet wurden. Sehen Sie im Burgen-Statistik, wie Kroatien abschneidet.

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