Notes
- The Benedictine monastery in Vrana kept the crown of Croatian kings.
- According to legend, the Croatian Knights Templar buried the great treasure in Vrana.
- In Vrana were born two famous 15th-century Croatian masters of the Renaissance: Lucijan Vranjanin (Luciano Laurana or Lucijan the builder) and sculptor Franjo Laurana Vranjanin (Francesco Laurana). From Vrana comes the great theologian Thomas Ilirik.
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