Verinopolis or Berinopolis (Greek: Βηρινούπολις or Βερινούπολις) was a city and bishopric in ancient Galatia, central Anatolia (modern Turkey).
Its location is unknown, and its traditional identification (e.g. by William Mitchell Ramsay[1] or Raymond Janin[2]) with the late antique waystation of Aegonne or Euagina, localized near the modern settlement of Büyük Köhne (today Sorgun), is most probably incorrect.
[3][4] The city belonged to the Roman province of Galatia Prima, and later to the Bucellarian Theme, until Emperor Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912– ) detached it (along with the neighbouring banda of Stavros or Stavropolis and Myriokephalon) to form the new tourma of Saniana in the theme of Charsianon.
[3] In the Notitiae Episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the bishopric of Verinopolis appears as a suffragan see of the Metropolis of Ancyra; in later lists, beginning with the Notitia 7, under Leo VI, it appears to have become a double bishopric together with Stavros/Stavropolis.
[3] Under Michael VIII Palaiologos (r. 1259–1282– ) it may have become an autocephalous archbishopric, or even a metropolis, but it vanished soon after.