A former noble Čarapić family lived in

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''nahija'' (Belgrade region). Members of the family participated in the

Serbian Revolution The Serbian Revolution ( / ') was a national uprising and constitutional change in Serbia that took place between 1804 and 1835, during which this territory evolved from an Sanjak of Smederevo, Ottoman province into a Revolutionary Serbia, reb ...

and the subsequent government of the

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. The family descended from the Vujanović brotherhood in Kuči (modern

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), and had settled Grocka in ca. 1750. Čarapić ( sr-Cyrl, Чарапић) is also a surname found in

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and

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. The root of the word is ''čarapa'', .

Notable members

* Ana Čarapić (born 1985), Serbian politician * Đorđe Čarapić (1773–1826), Serbian military leader *

Ilija Čarapić Ilija Čarapić (, ), was the first Mayor of Belgrade, Serbia. He was born in 1792 in Beli Potok, near Avala, and died in 1844. He was son of the Voyvode Vasa Čarapić and the brother-in-law of Karađorđe, appointed as Voyvode or Duke of Groc ...

(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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Carapic Surnames of Serbian origin Serbian families Serb families Surnames of Croatian origin