| Rokocin | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pomeranian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Starogard |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Starogard Gdański |
| Coordinates: | 53.9458°N 18.4667°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Population Total: | 512 |
Rokocin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Starogard Gdański, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) south-west of Starogard Gdański and 480NaN0 south of the regional capital Gdańsk. It is located within the ethnocultural region of Kociewie in the historic region of Pomerania.
The village was mentioned under the Latinized name Ricosino in documents from the 12th century when it was part of fragmented medieval Poland.[2] In the past it also appeared under the Old Polish names Rokoczyn, Rykosyn, Rokosin.[2] Coins of 9th-century ruler Æthelberht, King of Wessex were found in the village in the 19th century.[2] Rokocin was a royal village of the Polish Crown, administratively located in the Tczew County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[3]
In 1934, Rokocin was visited by President of Poland Ignacy Mościcki.
During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Rokocin was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[4]