Sokol Fortress

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.

Texto adaptado de «Sokol (Konavle)» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sokol Fortress ranks #3122 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #30 of the 47 mapped in Croacia. Fundado en 1400, más antiguo que el 56% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 346 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XIV. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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