A former noble Čarapić family lived in Grocka nahija (Belgrade region). Members of the family participated in the Serbian Revolution and the subsequent government of the Principality of Serbia. The family descended from the Vujanović brotherhood in Kuči (modern Montenegro), and had settled Grocka in ca. 1750.[citation needed]

Grave of Vasa Čarapić (1768–1806), Serbian revolutionary

Čarapić (Serbian Cyrillic: Чарапић) is also a surname found in Serbia and Croatia. The root of the word is čarapa, lit.'sock'.

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