Vrbje
Place in Brod-Posavina, Croatia
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Vrbje is a village and a municipality in Brod-Posavina County, Croatia.
History
The village of Vrbje was first mentioned in 1720.[3] The local Roman Catholic Church of Saint Joseph was mentioned in 1758 at the time when it was still a wooden construction.[3] A new baroque style church was erected in period between 1773 and 1789 and its most recent reconstruction took place in 1985 during the time of the Socialist Republic of Croatia.[3]
Demographics
In 2021, the municipality had 1,691 residents in the following 7 settlements:[2]
- Bodovaljci, population 410
- Dolina, population 174
- Mačkovac, population 205
- Savski Bok, population 39
- Sičice, population 338
- Visoka Greda, population 167
- Vrbje, population 358
Vrbje: Population trends 1857–2021
| population | 2958 | 2992 | 2675 | 3089 | 3231 | 3957 | 3814 | 4065 | 4315 | 4341 | 4253 | 3920 | 3471 | 3210 | 2906 | 2215 | 1691 |
| 1857 | 1869 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1921 | 1931 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | 2021 |
