March 1241 The road the Mongols tookCesta, ktorou prišli Mongoli

In March 1241 the main Mongol army under Batu Khan forced the Verecke pass in the Carpathians, north-east of Ung, and came down into the upper Tisza plain. This district lay on that road. There was no stone castle anywhere near to slow the army down, and villages on an open lowland had nowhere to go. The kingdom's answer, once Béla IV returned from exile, was a programme of stone castle building that gave Slovakia most of the castles it still has. But those castles needed defensible rock, and around Sobrance there is none — which is why this district has no great fortress and never did.V marci 1241 prerazilo hlavné mongolské vojsko pod vedením Batuchána Verecký priesmyk v Karpatoch severovýchodne od Užskej stolice a zostúpilo do hornej roviny pri Tise. Tento okres ležal na tejto ceste. Široko-ďaleko nebol kamenný hrad, ktorý by vojsko spomalil, a dediny na otvorenej rovine nemali kam ujsť. Odpoveďou kráľovstva, keď sa Belo IV. vrátil z vyhnanstva, bol program stavby kamenných hradov, ktorému Slovensko vďačí za väčšinu svojich hradov. Tie však potrebovali brániteľnú skalu a okolo Sobraniec nijaká nie je — preto tu nikdy nestála veľká pevnosť.