A legend has been preserved, according to which the village was founded by the Turkish officer Kara Hussein – an aide to the great Vizier, who lead the Turkish army in the war between Turkey and Poland during the second half of 17 th century. However , there are documents confirming that the village had existed quite earlier than that. Thus a register of sheep breeders from 1573 , compiled by the Varna Kadi by the name of Mohammed, makes mention of the village of Kara-Hussein, which until then belonged to the Provadia kaaza (district). It also states the names of several Turkish sheep breeders . The village is mentioned in other Turkish documents from 1676 and 1678 as well under the same name. All this gives us grounds to conclude that the village was founded by Turks in the beginning of the Turkish rule. According to a legend the village was called Tash-tepe – Stony mound. Whether in 16-17 c. there were Bulgarians in the village it is not known. However, the several small bronze belt buckles found there are produce of the Bulgarian craft of that time .

Until 1934 in the village there was a big fountain, in which a marble slate in old Turkish had been built in, which is now unfortunately lost. In the bridge, located near the place where this fountain was, there is a built-in rock with an inscription, which was taken away upon its demolition . Its inscription reads : ” Know all men by this : The first building was from 1743. It stood for 6 years with no water running . On this 4 August 1891 it was built by the local population ”.

From this inscription preserved by good fortune we learn that the old Turkish fountain was built in 1748.

The situation of the village radically changed in 19 th c. and especially during the Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829. According to the prominent historian Konstantin Irechek, in that war the Turks from the village of Kara-Hussein dispersed and only 3 houses remained. In place of the deported Turks there were accommodated grecianised Bulgarians from the villages of Golyam and Malak manastir feom Kazalgach district /Elhovo/ and Kavakli district /Topolovgrad/, which were at the time within the Odrin district. This population has been living to date in the Yambol region and is known by the name of “Kariots” – Bulgarians who spoke broken Greek until recently .

A little later in the village of Chernevo settled Bulgarians from the Sliven region, and the few remaining Turks moved to the neighbouring village of Kozludzha. For several decades the village was divided into two neighbourhoods : Greek and Bulgarian, with great animosities between them . In 1836 a church was built in the village . Due to the increasing animosity between Bulgarians and grecianised Bulgarians during the Crimean war of 1856 the Bulgarians built a separate church . It was located in the place of the present park in the centre of the village, and was small and sunken in the ground and later washed away by a major flood .

In 1934 the village changed its name to Sratsimir according to a legend , saying that Tsar Sratsimir spent a night here on the way to Vidin, when he was captured .

In 1944 a change of the name was imposed because of the fact that the railway station was named Osenovets, and the village - Sratsimir . A new name was given – Chernevo , in view of the following considerations : in Turkish the first part of the old name – Kara , means “black” , and on the other hand the new name is associated with the elder Chernyo, one of the first Bulgarians who moved to the village .