Turiec is where the Slovak National Uprising was set off. On 27 August 1944 in Martin, just across the basin from this castle, partisans under the Soviet commander Veličko and the mutinying local garrison stopped a train carrying the German military mission home from Romania and disarmed it. Within about twenty-four hours the first German units were moving into Slovakia, and the uprising was declared. The insurgents held the basin for three weeks; then German forces broke the defensive line near Žilina, took Martin on 21 September 1944, and combed the wooded hinterland of the Váh and Turiec valleys for partisans. On 30 September 1944 they burned Sklabiňa castle, and the Révay manor down in the village went the same way, taking its collections with it. The village of Sklabinský Podzámok was burned too; in 2020 it received a state commemorative medal for it.Turiec je miesto, kde sa Slovenské národné povstanie rozhorelo. 27. augusta 1944 zastavili v Martine, len cez kotlinu od tohto hradu, partizáni pod velením sovietskeho veliteľa Veličku spolu so vzbúrenou miestnou posádkou vlak, ktorým sa z Rumunska vracala nemecká vojenská misia, a odzbrojili ju. Zhruba do dvadsiatich štyroch hodín vstupovali na Slovensko prvé nemecké jednotky a povstanie bolo vyhlásené. Povstalci udržali kotlinu tri týždne; potom nemecké vojská prelomili obranu pri Žiline, 21. septembra 1944 obsadili Martin a prečesávali zalesnené zázemie Považia a Turca kvôli partizánom. 30. septembra 1944 vypálili Sklabinský hrad a rovnako dopadol aj révaiovský kaštieľ dole v dedine aj so zbierkami, ktoré v ňom boli. Vypálili aj obec Sklabinský Podzámok; v roku 2020 za to dostala štátnu pamätnú medailu.
