Kocherinovo

Kocherinovo (Bulgarian: Кочериново, pronounced [kot͡ʃɛˈrinovo]) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, part of Kyustendil Province.

It is the administrative centre of Kocherinovo Municipality, which lies in the southern part of Kyustendil Province.

[1] In the 1930s, famous Bulgarian poet Nikola Vaptsarov worked in a Kocherinovo factory near the village of Barakovo as a stoker and a technician.

The town's name stems from the dialectal word kocherina, a derivative of kocher, "pigsty, section of a shed".

It is related to the placename Kočerin near Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kocherovo near Gotse Delchev.