Vranje

The toponym Vranje is first attested in an 11th-century Byzantine text. The town's name is believed to be derived from vran, a word of Slavic origin meaning swarthy or dark, or the archaic Slavic given name Vran, which itself is derived from the same word.{{cite book|last=Đorđević|first=Jadranka|year=2001|title=Srodnički odnosi u Vranju|language=Serbian|publisher=Ethnographical Institute|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/478635680/Jadranka-Djordjevic-Srodnicki-odnosi-u-Vranju-pdf|location=Belgrade, Yugoslavia |quote=P. Skok ime mesta Vranje izvodi iz reči vran, fvrana, pridjev, određeno vrani, baltoslav. i praslav....poimeničen u sr.r. Vranje (Srbija)... M. Zlatanović smatra da je naziv Vranje postao od sloveskog ličnog imena Vran|page=20}}

The Romans conquered the region in the 2nd or 1st centuries BC. Vranje was part of Moesia Superior and Dardania during Roman rule. The Roman fortresses in the Vranje region were abandoned during the Hun attacks in 539–544 AD; these include the localities of Kale at Vranjska Banja, Gradište in Korbevac and Gradište in Prvonek.{{cite web|last=Janković|first=Đorđe|title=The Slavs in the 6th century North Illyricum|url=http://www.rastko.rs/arheologija/delo/13047|work=Projekat Rastko|access-date=29 September 2013|location=Belgrade|language=sr|quote=}}

During the Middle Ages, in the 9th-11th centuries, the territory of modern-day Vranje was a part of Bulgaria.{{sfn|Ivanišević|2013|p=450}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0NBxG9Id58C|title=The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century|first1=John V. A.|last1=Fine|first2=John Van Antwerp|last2=Fine|date=29 December 1991|publisher=University of Michigan Press|access-date=29 December 2017|isbn=978-0472081493}}

The first written mention of Vranje comes from Byzantine chronicle Alexiad by Anna Comnena (1083–1153), in which it is mentioned how Serbian ruler Vukan in 1093, as part of his conquests, reached Vranje and conquered it, however only shortly, as he was forced to retreat from the powerful Byzantines.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}} The city name stems from the Old Serbian word vran ("black"). The second mention is from 1193, when Vranje was temporarily taken by Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja from the Byzantines.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}} Vranje definitely entered the Serbian state in 1207 when it was conquered by Grand Prince Stefan Nemanjić.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}}

Some time before 1306, tepčija Kuzma was given the governorship of Vranje (a župa, "county", including the town and neighbouring villages), serving King Stefan Milutin.{{sfn|Blagojević|2001|p=26}} At the same time, kaznac Miroslav held the surroundings of Vranje.{{cite book|author=Синиша Мишић|title=Лексикон градова и тргова средњовековних српских земаља: према писаним изворима|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rkRSAQAAIAAJ|year=2010|publisher=Завод за уџбенике|isbn=978-86-17-16604-3|page=76}} Next, kaznac Baldovin (fl. 1325–45) received the province around Vranje, serving King Stefan Dečanski.Starinar 1936, p. 72: "... сродника и наследника кнеза Балдовина. Кнез Балдовин je из времена краља Стефана Уроша III Дечанског (1321–1331). Пре њега je, изгледа, био y Врањи тепчија Кузма, a пре овога казнац Мирослав (свакако онај исти који ce помиње y ..." Next, župan Maljušat, Baldovin's son, held the župa of Vranje.{{sfn|Blagojević|2001|pp=41, 52}} By the time of the proclamation of the Serbian Empire, holders with the title kefalija are present in Vranje, among other cities.{{sfn|Blagojević|2001|p=252}} During the fall of the Serbian Empire, Vranje was part of Uglješa Vlatković's possessions, which also included Preševo and Kumanovo. Uglješa became a vassal of Serbian Despot Stefan Lazarević after the Battle of Tripolje (1403); Vranje became part of Serbian Despotate.

File:Markovo Kale interior view.JPG, ruins of a medieval fortress.]]

The medieval župa was a small landscape unit, whose territory expanded with creation of new settlements and independence of hamlets and neighbourhoods from župa villages and shepherd cottages.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}} Good mercantile relations with developing mine city Novo Brdo led to creation of numerous settlements.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}} In 1455, Vranje was conquered by the Ottoman Empire, amid the fall of the medieval Serbian state.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}} It was organized as the seat of a kaza (county), named Vranje, after the city and the medieval župa.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}}

Vranje was part of the Ottoman Empire until 1878, when the town was captured by the Serbian army commanded by Jovan Belimarković.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}} The urban population of Vranje consisted of 30,061 Christian and 12,502 Muslim males, with total number of 2,500 Serbian houses and 2,000 Muslim houses. The urban Muslim population of Vranje in the mid-19th century consisted of Turks and Albanians.{{cite journal |last=Jagodić |first=Miloš |year=1998 |title=The Emigration of Muslims from the New Serbian Regions 1877/1878 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/balkanologie/pdf/265 |journal=Balkanologie |volume=2 |issue=2 |doi=10.4000/balkanologie.265 |s2cid=140637086}} para. 6. "According to the information about the language spoken among the Muslims in the cities, we can see of which nationality they were. So, the Muslim population of Niš and Pirot consisted mostly of Turks; in Vranje and Leskovac they were Turks and Albanians"; para. 11. "The Turks have been mostly city dwellers. It is certain, however, that part of them was of Albanian origin, because of the well-known fact that the Albanians have been very easily assimilated with Turks in the cities."; para. 26, 48. During the Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–1878), most of the Albanian population of Vranje was forced to flee to the Ottoman vilayet of Kosovo and others Muslims such as Turks fled from the city as well. The only Muslim population permitted to remain after the war in the town were Serbian speaking Muslim Romani of whom in 1910 numbered 6,089 in Vranje.{{cite book|last=Malcolm|first=Noel|title=Kosovo: A short history|year=1998|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GGQ_AQAAIAAJ&q=6%2C089+of+them|isbn=9780333666128|pages=208}}"Vranje itself became a major Gypsy centre, with a large population of Serbian-speaking Muslim Gypsies. After the nineteenth- century expulsions of Muslim Slavs and Muslim Albanians from the Serbian state, these Gypsies were virtually the only Muslims permitted to remain on Serbian soil: in 1910 there were 14,335 Muslims in the whole kingdom of Serbia (6,089 of them in Vranje), and roughly 90 per cent of the urban Muslims were Gypsies." Vranje entered the Principality of Serbia, with little more than 8,000 inhabitants at that time.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}} Up until the end of the Balkan Wars, the city had a special position and role, as the transmissive station of Serbian state political and cultural influence on Macedonia.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=255}}

In the early 20th century, Vranje had around 12,000 inhabitants. As a border town of the Kingdom of Serbia, it was used as the starting point for Serbian guerrilla (Chetniks) who crossed into Ottoman territory and fought in Kosovo and Macedonia. In World War I, the main headquarters of the Serbian army was in the town. King Peter I Karađorđević, Prime Minister Nikola Pašić and the chief of staff General Radomir Putnik stayed in Vranje. Vranje was occupied by the Kingdom of Bulgaria on 16–17 October 1915, after which war crimes and Bulgarisation was committed on the city and wider region.{{sfn|Mitrović|2007|pp=222–223}}

File:Monument in Vranje.JPG

After the war, Vranje was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in one of the 33 oblasts; in 1929, it became part of the Vardar Banovina. During World War II, Nazi German troops entered the town on 9 April 1941 and transferred it to Bulgarian administration on 22 April 1941. Vranje was liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans on 7 September 1944.

During Socialist Yugoslavia, Vranje was organized into the Pčinja District. In the 1960s and 1970s it was industrialized.

On 3 June 1993, a mass shooting occurred in Vranje where the perpetrator, Jožef Meneder fired upon the Yugoslav Army barracks in the South Morava bridge, killing 6 army privates and 1 ensign and injuring another 4 privates, before taking his own life.{{Cite web |url=https://www.glassrpske.com/lat/drustvo/feljton/verske-sekte-crna-ruza-satanisticki-ritual-zrtvovanja-na-grobljima/34446 |title=VERSKE SEKTE - Crna ruža - Satanistički ritual žrtvovanja na grobljima|date=29 January 2010 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.aimpress.ch/dyn/pubs/archive/data/199706/70620-003-pubs-beo.htm|title=1997/06/20 01:43 SVECANOST OSENCENA LICEMERJEM|website=www.aimpress.ch|access-date=2020-07-22|archive-date=2020-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722191415/http://www.aimpress.ch/dyn/pubs/archive/data/199706/70620-003-pubs-beo.htm|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://aimpress.ch/dyn/pubs/archive/data/199610/61031-004-pubs-beo.htm|title=1996/10/31 13:33 PUKOVNIK IMA KOME PISATI|website=aimpress.ch|access-date=2020-07-22|archive-date=2020-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723050326/http://aimpress.ch/dyn/pubs/archive/data/199610/61031-004-pubs-beo.htm|url-status=dead}}

During the 1990s, the economy of Vranje was heavily affected by the sanctions against Yugoslavia and the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

Vranje is situated in the northwestern part of the Vranje basin, on the left waterside of the South Morava.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}}

Vranje is at base of the mountains Pljačkovica ({{convert|1231|m|ft|abbr=off}}), Krstilovice ({{convert|1154|m|ft|abbr=off}}) and Pržar ({{convert|731|m|ft|abbr=off}}). The Vranje river and the city are divided by the main road and railway line, which leads to the north Leskovac (70 km), Niš ({{convert|110|km|mi|abbr=off}}) and Belgrade ({{convert|347|km|mi|abbr=off}}), and, to the south Kumanovo ({{convert|56|km|mi|abbr=off}}), Skopje ({{convert|91|km|mi|abbr=off}}) and Thessalonica ({{convert|354|km|mi|abbr=off}}). It is {{convert|70|km|0|abbr=on}} from the border with Bulgaria, {{convert|40|km|0|abbr=on}} from the border with North Macedonia.

Vranje is the economical, political, and cultural centre of the Pčinja District in South Serbia.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}} The Pčinja District also includes the municipalities of Bosilegrad, Bujanovac, Vladičin Han, Preševo, Surdulica, and Trgovište.{{sfn|Bazić|2008|p=254}} It is located on the Pan-European Corridor X.

{{Weather box

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|location = Vranje (1991–2020, extremes 1961–persent)

|metric first = yes

|single line = yes

|Jan record high C = 17.9

|Feb record high C = 22.4

|Mar record high C = 26.3

|Apr record high C = 31.5

|May record high C = 33.4

|Jun record high C = 37.9

|Jul record high C = 41.6

|Aug record high C = 40.1

|Sep record high C = 37.0

|Oct record high C = 33.2

|Nov record high C = 26.1

|Dec record high C = 18.7

|year record high C = 41.6

|Jan high C = 4.5

|Feb high C = 7.7

|Mar high C = 12.7

|Apr high C = 17.7

|May high C = 22.7

|Jun high C = 26.8

|Jul high C = 29.3

|Aug high C = 30.0

|Sep high C = 24.6

|Oct high C = 18.8

|Nov high C = 12.0

|Dec high C = 5.5

|year high C = 17.7

|Jan mean C = 0.3

|Feb mean C = 2.5

|Mar mean C = 6.8

|Apr mean C = 11.6

|May mean C = 16.1

|Jun mean C = 20.1

|Jul mean C = 22.2

|Aug mean C = 22.3

|Sep mean C = 17.2

|Oct mean C = 12.1

|Nov mean C = 6.7

|Dec mean C = 1.5

|year mean C = 11.6

|Jan low C = -3.4

|Feb low C = -2.0

|Mar low C = 1.3

|Apr low C = 5.2

|May low C = 9.5

|Jun low C = 13.1

|Jul low C = 14.6

|Aug low C = 14.6

|Sep low C = 10.7

|Oct low C = 6.4

|Nov low C = 2.2

|Dec low C = -1.8

|year low C = 5.9

|Jan record low C = -25.0

|Feb record low C = -22.0

|Mar record low C = -16.0

|Apr record low C = -6.6

|May record low C = -0.3

|Jun record low C = 2.3

|Jul record low C = 5.0

|Aug record low C = 4.5

|Sep record low C = -2.4

|Oct record low C = -7.0

|Nov record low C = -12.6

|Dec record low C = -18.0

|year record low C = -25.0

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|Jan precipitation mm = 39.9

|Feb precipitation mm = 41.0

|Mar precipitation mm = 43.5

|Apr precipitation mm = 52.9

|May precipitation mm = 63.1

|Jun precipitation mm = 59.3

|Jul precipitation mm = 46.2

|Aug precipitation mm = 41.8

|Sep precipitation mm = 50.2

|Oct precipitation mm = 60.2

|Nov precipitation mm = 54.3

|Dec precipitation mm = 53.6

|year precipitation mm = 606.0

|Jan humidity = 81.8

|Feb humidity = 74.8

|Mar humidity = 66.6

|Apr humidity = 64.0

|May humidity = 66.2

|Jun humidity = 64.5

|Jul humidity = 60.0

|Aug humidity = 59.1

|Sep humidity = 66.3

|Oct humidity = 73.4

|Nov humidity = 79.0

|Dec humidity = 83.4

|year humidity = 69.9

|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm

|Jan precipitation days = 12.6

|Feb precipitation days = 11.5

|Mar precipitation days = 12.4

|Apr precipitation days = 12.0

|May precipitation days = 13.1

|Jun precipitation days = 10.1

|Jul precipitation days = 8.3

|Aug precipitation days = 6.7

|Sep precipitation days = 9.2

|Oct precipitation days = 9.9

|Nov precipitation days = 10.7

|Dec precipitation days = 13.9

|year precipitation days = 130.4

|Jan snow days = 9.7

|Feb snow days = 8.5

|Mar snow days = 5.2

|Apr snow days = 1.3

|May snow days = 0.0

|Jun snow days = 0.0

|Jul snow days = 0.0

|Aug snow days = 0.0

|Sep snow days = 0.0

|Oct snow days = 0.5

|Nov snow days = 3.2

|Dec snow days = 8.1

|year snow days = 36.5

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|Feb sun = 103.7

|Mar sun = 154.0

|Apr sun = 181.2

|May sun = 225.9

|Jun sun = 278.3

|Jul sun = 320.7

|Aug sun = 302.6

|Sep sun = 209.4

|Oct sun = 158.6

|Nov sun = 91.6

|Dec sun = 59.1

|year sun = 2160.0

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| archive-date = 21 April 2022

| title= Monthly and annual means, maximum and minimum values of meteorological elements for the period 1991–2020

| language = sr

| publisher = Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia

| access-date = 20 April 2022}}{{cite web

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210720081014/http://www.hidmet.gov.rs/eng/meteorologija/stanica_sr.php?moss_id=13489

| archive-date = 20 July 2021

| url = http://www.hidmet.gov.rs/eng/meteorologija/stanica_sr.php?moss_id=13489

| title= Monthly and annual means, maximum and minimum values of meteorological elements for the period 1981–2010

| language = sr

| publisher = Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia

| access-date = 25 February 2017}}

|date=January 2015}}

{{Weather box

| metric first = yes

| single line = yes

| location = Vranje (2010-2022)

| Jan high C = 4.6

| Feb high C = 9.1

| Mar high C = 12.9

| Apr high C = 18.4

| May high C = 22.7

| Jun high C = 27.1

| Jul high C = 30.2

| Aug high C = 31.1

| Sep high C = 25.7

| Oct high C = 19.1

| Nov high C = 13.5

| Dec high C = 6.5

| Jan mean C = 0.8

| Feb mean C = 4.2

| Mar mean C = 7.3

| Apr mean C = 12.0

| May mean C = 16.3

| Jun mean C = 20.3

| Jul mean C = 22.6

| Aug mean C = 23.0

| Sep mean C = 18.5

| Oct mean C = 12.7

| Nov mean C = 8.4

| Dec mean C = 2.9

| Jan low C = -2.9

| Feb low C = -0.6

| Mar low C = 1.7

| Apr low C = 5.6

| May low C = 9.7

| Jun low C = 13.6

| Jul low C = 15.2

| Aug low C = 15.0

| Sep low C = 11.3

| Oct low C = 6.3

| Nov low C = 3.4

| Dec low C = -0.8

| Jan precipitation mm = 52.0

| Feb precipitation mm = 46.8

| Mar precipitation mm = 50.6

| Apr precipitation mm = 119.1

| May precipitation mm = 63.4

| Jun precipitation mm = 52.2

| Jul precipitation mm = 44.1

| Aug precipitation mm = 22.2

| Sep precipitation mm = 43.1

| Oct precipitation mm = 57.8

| Nov precipitation mm = 61.7

| Dec precipitation mm = 55.2

|Jan sun = 67.7

|Feb sun = 101.1

|Mar sun = 151.9

|Apr sun = 194.3

|May sun = 214.2

|Jun sun = 256.8

|Jul sun = 319.5

|Aug sun = 312.6

|Sep sun = 216.5

|Oct sun = 172.3

|Nov sun = 99.7

|Dec sun = 67.6

| source = weatheronline.co.uk {{cite web|url= https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/city?LANG=en&PLZ=_____&PLZN=_____&WMO=13489&CONT=euro&R=160&LEVEL=162®ION=0005&LAND=YG&MOD=tab&ART=TEM&NOREGION=1&FMM=1&FYY=2010&LMM=12&LYY=2022 |title= Climate: Vranje, Serbia|publisher=Weatheronline.co.uk|access-date=20 April 2023}}

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{{Historical populations|1948|11252|1953|13465|1961|17999|1971|28613|1981|44094|1991|51818|2002|55052|2011|55138|2022|50954|source={{cite web|title=Comparative overview of the number of population in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2002, 2011. and 2022|url=https://popis2022.stat.gov.rs/en-US/popisni-podaci-eksel-tabele/|publisher=Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia}}}}The city population has been expanded by Yugoslav-era settlers and urbanization from its surroundings. Serb refugees of the Yugoslav Wars (1991–95) and the Kosovo War (1998–99), especially during and following the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, as well as emigrants from Kosovo in the aftermath of the latter conflict have further increased the population.

According to the 2022 census results, there are 74,381 inhabitants in the city of Vranje.

The ethnic composition of the city administrative area (2011 census):{{cite web|title=2011 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Serbia|url=http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/Popis2011/Nacionalna%20pripadnost-Ethnicity.pdf|website=stat.gov.rs|access-date=1 February 2018}}

File:Municipality of Vranje in District Pcinja en.svg

The city of Vranje consists of two city municipalities: Vranje and Vranjska Banja.{{Serbian census 2011}} Their municipal areas include the following settlements:

;Municipality of Vranje:

{{div col|colwidth=10em}}

• Aleksandrovac
• Barbarušince
• Barelić
• Beli Breg
• Bojin Del
• Bresnica
• Buljesovce
• Buštranje
• Crni Lug
• Čestelin
• Ćukovac
• Ćurkovica
• Davidovac
• Dobrejance
• Donja Otulja
• Donje Punoševce
• Donje Trebešinje
• Donje Žapsko
• Donji Neradovac
• Dragobužde
• Drenovac
• Dubnica
• Dulan
• Dupeljevo
• Golemo Selo
• Gornja Otulja
• Gornje Punoševce
• Gornje Trebešinje
• Gornje Žapsko
• Gornji Neradovac
• Gradnja
• Gumerište
• Katun
• Klašnjice
• Koćura
• Kopanjane
• Kruševa Glava
• Krševica
• Kupinince
• Lalince
• Lepčince
• Lukovo
• Margance
• Mečkovac
• Mijakovce
• Mijovce
• Milanovo
• Milivojce
• Moštanica
• Nastavce
• Nova Brezovica
• Oblička Sena
• Ostra Glava
• Pavlovac
• Pljačkovica
• Preobraženje
• Ranutovac
• Rataje
• Ribnice
• Ristovac
• Roždace
• Rusce (Vranje)
• Sikirje
• Smiljević
• Soderce
• Srednji Del
• Stance
• Stara Brezovica
• Strešak
• Stropsko
• Struganica
• Studena
• Surdul
• Suvi Dol
• Tesovište
• Tibužde
• Trstena
• Tumba
• Urmanica
• Uševce
• Viševce
• Vlase (Vranje)
• Vranje
• Vrtogoš
• Zlatokop

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;Municipality of Vranjska Banja:

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• Babina Poljana
• Bujkovac
• Crni Vrh
• Duga Luka
• Izumno
• Klisurica
• Korbevac
• Korbul
• Kriva Feja
• Kumarevo (Vranje)
• Leva Reka
• Lipovac
• Nesvrta
• Panevlje
• Prvonek
• Prevalac
• Sebevranje
• Slivnica
• Stari Glog
• Toplac
• Vranjska Banja

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File:Beli most.JPG, a landmark of Vranje.]]

File:Narodnja nosnja Vranje.jpg

Vranje was an important Ottoman trading site. The White Bridge is a symbol of the city and is called "most ljubavi" (lovers' bridge) after the tale of the forbidden love between the Muslim girl Ajša and Christian Stojan that resulted in the father killing the couple. After that, he built the bridge where he had killed her and had the story inscribed in Ottoman Arabic. The 11th-century Markovo Kale fortress is in the north of the city. The city has traditional Balkan and Ottoman architecture.

The well-known theater play Koštana by Bora Stanković is set in Vranje.

Vranje is famous for its popular old music. The best known music is from the theater piece with music, Koštana, by Bora Stanković. This original music style has been renewed recently by taking different, specific, and more oriental form, with the contribution of rich brass instruments. It is played particularly by the Vranje Romani people.

Vranje is the seat of Pčinja District and, as such, is a major center for cultural events in the district. Most notable annual events are Borina nedelja, Stari dani, Dani karanfila (in Vranjska Banja), etc.

Vranje lies close to Besna Kobila mountain and Vranjska Banja, locations with high potential that are underdeveloped. Other locations in and around Vranje with some tourist potential include Prohor Pčinjski monastery, Kale-Krševica, Markovo kale, Pržar, birth-house museum of Bora Stankovic.

Largest hotels are Hotel Vranje, near the center and Hotel Pržar overlooking the city and the valley. The city has traditional Serbian cuisine as well as international cuisine restaurants and many cafes and bars.

File:Vranje Museum.jpg

• National Museum (in former Pasha's residence, built in 1765)
• Youth Cultural Centre
• National Library
• Centre for Talents
• Theater "Bora Stanković"
• Tourist organization of Vranje

The city used to have an association football team, Dinamo Vranje, which has since been disbanded.

File:Бундеве на њиви.JPG in the suburb village of Vlase.]]

Vranje is located in southern Serbia, on Corridor X near the border with North Macedonia and Bulgaria. The distance from Thessalonica international harbor is {{convert|285|km|0|abbr=on}}; distance from the international airports of Skopje and Niš are {{convert|90|km|0|abbr=on}}. Vranje has a long tradition of industrial production, trade, and tourism and is rich in natural resources, such as forests and geothermal resources.[http://www.siepa.gov.rs/files/pdf/Vranje.pdf Агенција за страна улагања и промоцију извоза Републике Србије (СИЕПА) – Град Врање]

Until the second half of the 20th century Vranje was a craftsman town. The crafts included weaving, water-milling, and carriages craft. With the beginning of industrialization in the 1960s, many of these crafts disappeared. In those years, many factories were opened, such as the Tobacco Industry of Vranje ({{langx|sr|Дуванска индустрија Врање}}), Simpo, Koštana (shoe factory), Yumco (cotton plant), Alfa Plam (technical goods), SZP Zavarivač Vranje and others.

The most common industries in the city of Vranje are timber industry, clothing, footwear and furniture, food and beverages, agricultural, textile industry, chemical industry, construction industry, machinery and equipment, and business services. There are more than 2,500 small- and medium-size companies. To potential investors there are industrial sites, with plan documents and furnished infrastructure. Among the companies with business locations in the city are British American Tobacco, Simpo, Sanch, Mladenovic D.O.O, Kenda Farben, Danny style, OMV and Hellenic Petroleum.

As of September 2017, Vranje has one of 14 free economic zones established in Serbia.{{cite news |last1=Mikavica |first1=A. |title=Slobodne zone mamac za investitore |url=http://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/388105/Slobodne-zone-mamac-za-investitore |access-date=17 March 2019 |work=politika.rs |date=3 September 2017 |language=sr}}

;Historical statistics

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As of 1961, there were 1,525 employees; in 1971, there were 4,374 employees; and in 1998, there were 32,758 employees.{{citation_needed|date=February 2018}} Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, and due to sanctions imposed on FR Yugoslavia during the rule of Slobodan Milošević, the number of employees began to drop; factories which employed a large number of people closed, among whom are Yumco and Koštana. As of 2010, there were only 18,958 employed inhabitants and 7,559 unemployed.{{citation_needed|date=February 2018}} As of 2010, the city of Vranje has 59,278 available workers.{{citation_needed|date=February 2018}} In 2010, the City Council passed the "Strategy of sustainable development of the city of Vranje from 2010 to 2019," for the achievement of objectives through a transparent and responsible business partnership with industry and the public.

As of 2020, a total of 24,509 people were employed. A total of 5,921 people (19.46%) were unemployed.{{cite web|title=MUNICIPALITIES AND REGIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA, 2021.|url=https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2021/Pdf/G202113048.pdf|website=stat.gov.rs|publisher=Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia|date=25 December 2019|access-date=2 January 2022}}

;Economic preview

The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2022):{{cite web|title=MUNICIPALITIES AND REGIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA, 2023.|url=https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2023/PdfE/G202313050.pdf|website=stat.gov.rs|publisher=Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia|access-date=20 September 2024}}

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• Borisav Stanković (1876–1927), Serbian writer
• Justin Popović (1894–1979), theologian and philosopher

{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Serbia}}

The city of Vranje is twinned with:

• {{flagicon|POL}} Nowy Sącz, Poland, since 2002{{cite web|url=http://www.nowysacz.pl/miasta_partnerskie|title=Miasta partnerskie i zaprzyjaźnione Nowego Sącza|access-date = 1 August 2013|work=Urząd Miasta Nowego Sącza|language=pl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523172036/http://www.nowysacz.pl/miasta_partnerskie|archive-date=23 May 2013}}
• {{flagicon|GRE}} Kavala, Greece, since 2009
• {{flagicon|KOS}} Leposavić, Kosovo{{Cite web|title=Međunarodna saradnja|url=http://www.vranje.org.rs/ogradu.php?id=2382&oblast=medjsaradnja|access-date=2021-07-04|website=vranje.org.rs}}

• List of cities in Serbia
• Bora Stanković Gymnasium, Vranje

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{{commons category|Vranje}}

• {{official website|http://www.vranje.org.rs/}}
• [http://www.bibliotekavranje.rs/index.php Library of Vranje]
• [http://muzejvranje.rs/ Museum of Vranje]
• [http://www.tovranje.rs Tourist organization of Vranje] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514070941/http://www.tovranje.rs/ |date=14 May 2014 }}

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