Sokograd (Pliva)

Sokograd
Plivski grad
Part of Banate and Kingdom of Bosnia
Sokolac, Šipovo municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Site information
TypeCastle (residential, fortification)
Conditionruin
Location
Ground plan of the fortress
Coordinates44°17′6.641″N 17°1′57.688″E / 44.28517806°N 17.03269111°E / 44.28517806; 17.03269111
Site history
Built14th century
Built bymultilayered
MaterialsLimestone
Battles/warsBattle of Sokograd (1463)
Garrison information
Past
commanders
Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić

Sokograd is a medieval fortress with a castle town in the Pliva river valley in Šipovo municipality, Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was a very important fortress for the medieval Bosnian state, and the center of the župa Pliva (at the time also called Pljeva). It was built in a canyon on a steep slope high above the river Sokočnica, which flows into Pliva in Šipovo.