Vrgorac () is a town in Croatia in the Split-Dalmatia County.
Climate Since records began in 1981, the highest temperature recorded at the local weather station was , on 4 August 2017. The coldest temperature was , on 7 January 2017.
Demographics The total population of Vrgorac is 6,572 (census 2011), in the following settlements:
Banja, population 202 Dragljane, population 52 Draževitići, population 203 Duge Njive, population 105 Dusina, population 494 Kljenak, population 86 Kokorići, population 161 Kotezi, population 278 Kozica, population 56 Mijaca, population 95 Orah, population 268 Podprolog, population 355 Poljica Kozička, population 172 Prapatnice, population 179 Rašćane, population 130 Ravča, population 154 Stilja, population 320 Umčani, population 227 Veliki Prolog, population 499 Vina, population 134 Višnjica, population 14 Vlaka, population 41 Vrgorac, population 2,039 Zavojane, population 308
In the 2011 census, 99% of the population were Croats.
Prehistory In the area Veliki Vanik two early or middle Bronze Age individuals were found, probably Proto-Illyrians, one was genetically determined as haplogroup J2b2a1.
World War II Following the invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers in April 1941, Vrgorac was incorporated de jure into the Independent State of Croatia, however the town was militarily occupied by Fascist Italy.
On 15 June 1942, the Yugoslav Partisans captured Vrgorac town and occupied it for one day, during which they carried out executions and looting before they were forced out. Two months later on 29 August, collaborationist Chetniks massacred 145 Croat civilians including three priests in the villages of Vrgorac at the end of anti-partisan Operation "Albia".
Notable people
Tin Ujević (1891–1955), poet Stipe Božić (born 1951), mountaineer, filmmaker, photographer; second European to climb Mt. Everest twice. Nikola Vujčić (born 1978), basketball player and team manager of Maccabi Tel Aviv Bonaventura Radonić (1888-1945), Franciscan, philosopher, professor
References
Vrgorska krajina
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