Kurtbey

Kurtbey is a village in the Uzunköprü District of Edirne Province, Turkey.

[2] It is situated in the eastern Trakya (Thrace) plains.

The settlement was founded during the Rise of the Ottoman Empire (14th-15th centuries) by an akıncı (Ottoman militia the 14th to 16th centuries) chief named Kurtbey.

In the 19th century, especially following the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), Muslim refugees from Bulgaria (mostly Pomaks) and Romania were also settled in Kurtbey.

The crops are wheat, rice, sunflower, sugarbeet and watermelon.

An image of Kurtbey.