In 1347 Pula suffered from malaria and Vodnjan decided to avoid any contact with Pula at the time.

The year later, the Aquileia Patriarchs and Venice entered into war for a dispute over Kopar. Vicardo and Fiorni  de Castropola with their cousin Fulcherio joined the Aquileia Patriarchs army and attacked Pula and Vodnjan. For this acts their existing goods were taken by Venice and for 10 years they were banned to enter in any Venetian territory.

In 1355 and later on in 1379 Vodnjan, at the time named Burgo Adignani, was involved in the war between Venice and Genoa.

In 1381 Vodnjan returned to Venice and in 1388 Venetian Senate nominated as Podesta’ Giovanni Delfin. This fact allowed Vodnjan to create their real municipal autonomy and in 1393 an important agreement was signed with Pula where the borders of this two municipalities were set up. A year before Vodnjan established also “fondaco”, the granary storage house, that was a typical town institution for all Venetian towns in Istria.

In 1411 Vodnjan was involved in the war between the Aquileia Patriarchs and Venice. The Aquileia Patriarchs were at the time allied with Hungarian King Sigismondo and Croatian soldiers. Their task was to damage Venetian territories in Istria.

The defence walls of Vodnjan were severely damaged and the Municipality decided not to rebuilt it and this decision created the bases for Vodnjan to avoid future wars and to dedicated them selves to the production and trading activities.

In 1492 Vodnjan approved its new statute in the Church of St. Jacob and the Holy Trinity. This church from the 9th century also hosted the stipulation of a peace agreement between Pula and Vodnjan in 1393.

It is very interesting that many Istrian towns had its own statute that are similar to the country’s “Constitutions” we have today. This documents were the summary of people customs and tradition. They all testify the civilisation efforts that people in Istria made over the centuries to better organize their lives and the society they were living in.

Vodnjan’s, Pula’s, Dvigrad’s, Buzet’s, Oprtalj’s statute, and many other Istrian towns and villages statutes are many centuries old and each of them is a testimony of the Istrian municipality tradition that dates back into the Roman republic times.

It is nice that many of this old statutes were translated from Latin into Croatian and edited as books so the new generations can learn and have respect for this old municipal historical heritage.

During the 16th century Vodnjan had 1500 inhabitants and while most of the costal Istrian towns suffered from plague Vodnjan was spared. Vodnjan also avoided to be involved in the war between Austria and Venice in 1508.

During the Uskoci war at the beginning of the 17th century, Uskoci army was defeated by Venetian army in Vodnjan.

In 1630 Istria suffered another plague year in most Istrian towns but Vodnjan was spared again. In memory to this spare the citizen of Vodnjan organized every year a procession nearby the Church of Our Lady “della Traversa”.

During the 16th and 17th century many Slav immigrants escaped from the Turks and came in Vodnjan area.

After the fall of Venice in 1797, Vodnjan was part of the Austrian Empire and for a short period of time was under Napoleon domination. After the First World War and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Vodnjan, was part of Italy and after the Second World War became part of Yugoslavia (Croatia).

During the Italian Fascist period in Istria many Istrian families suffered from the regime or had to leave Istria. Fascism in Istria applied various repressive measures mostly towards Slav populations and this created the Antifascist Movement.

The Second World War was a very painful experience for the Istrian population and many innocent Istrians, both Slav and Latin, died during that war.

After the second World War Vodnjan became part of Yugoslavia (Croatia). There were three agreements between Yugoslavia and Italy which established that Istria would become a part of Yugoslavia: Paris Agreement of 1947, London Memorandum of 1954 and the Osimo Agreement reached in 1975. In the first decade after the Second World War many Istrians, especially those living in towns and villages that for centuries were part of the Venice Republic, decided to leave Istria.