Vrgorac

Vrgorac (, Vergoraz) is a town in Croatia in the Split-Dalmatia County.

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.

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