Kurtbey is a village in the Uzunköprü District of Edirne Province, Turkey.Köy , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 1,128 (2022). It is situated in the eastern Trakya (Thrace) plains. The distance to Uzunköprü is . 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. Between 1954 and the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).Law No. 6360, Official Gazette, 6 December 2012 . The town economy depends on agriculture. The crops are wheat, rice, sunflower, sugarbeet and watermelon.
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