İbriktepe () is a village in the İpsala District, Edirne Province in northwestern Turkey.Köy, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. The village had a population of 1,127 in 2022. Situated at the Turkey-Greece border, the village is away from İpsala and far from Edirne. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).Law No. 6360, Official Gazette, 6 December 2012 .
İbriktepe is famous for having been the birthplace of Albanian politician and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church, Fan Noli. At the time of Noli's birth a small Albanian-speaking Orthodox community lived in the town. It had an Ayos Georgios church built in 1837."Fan Stylian Noli was born in 1882, in Ibrik Tepe (Alb. Qytezë), an Albanian settlement south of Adrianople, in Eastern Thrace." "For Eastern Thrace we know from a number of sources (e.g. Hamp 1965, MacFarlane 1850, Sokolova 1983, Çabej 1975) that there were at least five Albanophone villages in addition to Mandrica in the Edirne (Odrin, Adrianople) region in 1864: Ibrik Tepe (Qytezë)" "Noli was by no means an ordinary Albanian politician. Prior to 1920, he had spent almost no time in Albania. Born in 1882 in Ibrik-Tepe (Qyteze in Albanian), an Albanian village in Ottoman Thrace" A bust of him was placed in the town in January 2011.
Today, the village formerly known as Qyteza is partly inhabited by Alevi Turks.
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