Gvozd (Serbian Cyrillic: Гвозд)[1] is a municipality in central Croatia, Sisak-Moslavina County.

[5] It is an underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.

[7] In the summer of 1941, the villages of then District of Vrginmost suffered heavy loss of civilian life with several hundred ethnic Serb men and boys perishing in the Glina massacre on 3 August 1941.

In 1942, Andrija Artuković ordered the killing of the entire population of Vrginmost and its surrounding villages in 1942, according to the charges laid against him in his deportation hearings in the United States.

[clarification needed][12][13][14] During the Croatian War of Independence, Vrginmost was a part of the unrecognized breakaway Republic of Serbian Krajina.