Karapandža

Karapandža is a Serbian surname derived from a type of "bogeyman" found in Southeast European folklore. Etymologically, it is Ottoman Turkish in origin and literally means "black claw" — see Karakoncolos.

The Jasenovac concentration camp had individual murder victims identified with the surname Karapandža, from Gornja Trebinja, Jazavica and Majske Poljane and from Kupinečki Kraljevec.


 * People
 * Stevo Karapandža (born 1947), a popular celebrity chef in former Yugoslavia.
 * Petar Karapandža (1700s), Habsburg painter and monk
 * Simo Karapandža
 * Milan Karapandža
 * Branko Karapandža
 * Steven Karapandža (born 1981), a Popular Cannabis Patient Advocate and Founder of one of the first Compassion Clubs in Michigan, a non profit patient advocacy group.