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]
Čarapić (Serbian Cyrillic: Чарапић) is also a surname found in Serbia and Croatia. The root of the word is čarapa, lit. 'sock'.
Notable members
edit- Ana Čarapić (born 1985), Serbian politician
- Đorđe Čarapić (1773-1826), Serbian military leader
- Ilija Čarapić (1792–1844), mayor of Belgrade
- Ognjen Čarapić (born 1998), Montenegrin basketball player
- Tanasije Čarapić (1770–1810), Serbian duke
- Tom Carapic (born 1939), found object artist
- Uroš Čarapić (born 1996), Serbian basketball player
- Vasa Čarapić (1768–1806), Serbian revolutionary