Aliçopehlivan

Aliçopehlivan is a village in the İpsala District of Edirne Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,782.
It is situated in the plains of Rumeli. The distance to İpsala is and to Edirne is. During the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), the Muslim population of the villages Lukovit and Koynare escaped from the Russian armies and were settled in the newly founded Koyunyeri, 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.
Today, most of village residents either work in the dairy farms or in rice fields.