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

Archaeologists have found ancient graves, a Bronze Age sword and other smaller items dating back to that period.

The history of the town begins in the 7th century when it was formed a village on the spring of the river Cetina, in a field below the mountain Dinara.

[9] In the year 1406, King Ladislaus of Naples gave Prozor Fortress, at that time Castrum Werhlychky as a center of Vrlička župa, to the Bosnian nobleman Hrvoje Vukčić.

Built during the reign of Croatian duke Branimir in the 9th century, by župan Gostiha of Cetina, near Vrlika, then called Vrh Rike.

[21] 1,026 Old-Croatian[22] ancient graves of great archaeological interest have been found in the vicinity of the church indicating that the culture of that time was under the influence of the Frankish Empire.

Its bell tower was added and consecrated by hieromonk Vikentija (Stojisavljević) from Dragović monastery in 1801 and its current iconostas dates from the mid-19th century.

[27] Father Jure Bogić from Cetina established a Catholic parish of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1688, and later Our Lady of the Rosary.

The Roman Catholic parish church in Vrlika dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Croatian: Župna crkva Gospe Ružarice) was built from the year 1876 to 1898.

In the front of the church stands a bronze bust dedicated to Filip Grabovac, who was born in the nearby village of Vinalić and died in Venice, Italy as a Croatian national hero.

The Catholic Parish Church in Vrlika was badly damaged and desecrated during the recent Croatian War of Independence.

[28] The holy day of Gospe Ružarice, the protector of the Vrlika Catholic community, is celebrated annually during the first week of October.