Podgora was inhabited as early as the Middle Ages. At the end of the 15th century, it came under
Ottoman rule along with the Primorje Region. The first written mention from 1571 testifies to its coming under
Venetian protection after the Ottoman defeat at the
Battle of Lepanto. The area was often the scene of conflict: during the
Candian War in the mid-17th century, the people of Podgora sided with the Venetians, and fighting continued into the early 18th century. Devastated by the conflicts, it was settled by people from the
Imotski Region and
Herzegovina in 1817. In the Ottoman
pashaluk censuses in 1624 and 1690, 80 and 125 houses respectively were recorded. An 1828
status animarum recorded 955 inhabitants living in 194 family households. Podgora is the birthplace of Don
Mihovil Pavlinović, a priest, politician and writer, best known as the first person to speak
Croatian in the
Dalmatian parliament, seeking the unification of Dalmatia and Croatia. Organized tourism started in Podgora in 1922, when the first hotel "Praha" was built. During World War II, on September 10, 1942, the
Yugoslav Partisans formed the
Partisan Navy in Podgora. In 1962, president
Josip Broz Tito unveiled a monument on a hill above the port of Podgora,
The wings of a seagull, in remembrance of World War II events. ==Gallery==