Aliçopehlivan

Aliçopehlivan
(Koyunyeri)
Village
Aliçopehlivan

Location in Turkey

Coordinates: 40°51′N 26°26′E / 40.850°N 26.433°E / 40.850; 26.433Coordinates: 40°51′N 26°26′E / 40.850°N 26.433°E / 40.850; 26.433
Country  Turkey
Province Edirne Province
District İpsala
Elevation 55 m (180 ft)
Population (2013)
  Total 1,921
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code 22490
Area code(s) 0284
Licence plate 22

Aliçopehlivan (formerly Koyunyeri) is a village in the İpsala district of Edirne Province, Turkey.

It is situated in the plains of Rumeli (East Thrace). The distance to İpsala is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) and to Edirne is 140 kilometres (87 mi). The population of Aliçopehlivan was 1,921.[1] During the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), the Muslim population (Turks and Pomaks) of the villages Lukovit and Koynare (both in modern Bulgaria) escaped from the Russian armies and were settled in the newly founded Koyunyeri (literally "place of sheep"), which refers to the ranges for sheep around the village and also bears semblance to the refugees' old village's name, Koynare.

A wrestler named Aliço, who won the Kırkpınar oil wrestling tournament for 27 consecutive years, was a resident of Koyunyeri, and in 1998, the village was renamed after Aliço (Aliçopehliven literally means "wrestler Aliço").[2]

Today, most of village residents either work in the dairy farms or in rice fields.

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