Sokolacka Kula Traditional Cache
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The fort Sokolac is referred to in mediaeval documents as
Sokol. The earliest charter concerning Sokolac as a royal fort,
with Ivan the 1st, known as Uza, and Grgur Eten, as castellans,
dates from 1395. It fell to the ottomans in 1592. In plan, the
fortifications from a triangle. The Sokolac fort has two towers,
the gate house and the keep, linked by a bailey, with a moat
outside the west rampart. All the ramparts have breastworks, and
houses abutting onto them, of witch the only surviving evidence is
same hewn stone. Little is known of fort in ottoman times, since it
was overshadowed in strategic importance by the nearby Ripac fort.
An inventory conducted in 1833 revealed that Sokolac contained just
two small cannon, while an undated census records that the garrison
consisted of only twelve man. A prehistoric hillfort occupied the
entire upper plateau, including the area where the Sokolac fort was
later build. the oldest archaeological artefacts found there date
from the late bronze age.
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n ubyr va gur jnyy - ybbx ng gur fcbvyre cvpgher