Šćepan Polje
Village
Šćepan Polje Location within Montenegro
Coordinates: 43°20′52″N 18°50′43″E / 43.347886°N 18.845205°E / 43.347886; 18.845205
Country	Montenegro
Municipality	Plužine
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Šćepan Polje (Serbian Cyrillic: Шћепан Поље, pronounced [ʃt͡ɕɛ̂paːn pɔ̂ʎɛ]) is the name of a small settlement and the region in Plužine Municipality northwestern in Montenegro. It is the border crossing point between Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the Tara river forms the border between the two countries. Right across the river and the state border in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is the village Hum.

History

Šćepan Polje was named after Herzog Stjepan Vukčić Kosača, medieval nobleman, who was known to the locals as Herzog Šćepan.^[1] On the hill above the settlement is the medieval Soko Grad _(sr.wiki), one of Stjepan's favorite residences. The fortress was destroyed by the Ottomans during their conquest of this part of the Kingdom of Bosnia. Below the Soko Grad is the monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church dedicated to St. John the Baptist, known as the Zagradje Monastery _(sr.wiki).^[2]

Geography and location

The settlement and the region is surrounded on the north by the Tara canyon and on the west by the Piva canyon. The river Drina is formed near Šćepan Polje by merging Piva and Tara, on the territory of the municipality of Foča, Republika Srpska, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Šćepan Polje is located in Piva and Old Herzegovina, the historical regions of northwestern Montenegro.^[3]

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