İpsala (; ) is a town in Edirne Province in northwestern Turkey. It is the seat of İpsala District.İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 8,546 (2022). It is the location of one of the main border checkpoints between Greece and Turkey. The Greek town opposite İpsala is Kipoi.
The state road D.110 (European route E90) connects the border checkpoint İpsala with Tekirdağ at the coast of the Marmara Sea. The town consists of six quarters: Kapucu, Saraçilyas, Bayrambey, Köprü, Bozkurt and Fatih.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
History
In Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times, this was the town of Cypsela, which belonged to the Roman province of Rhodope, whose capital and metropolitan see was Traianopolis. During the reign of Orhan, it came under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
From the 7th century onward, the bishopric of Cypsela, initially a suffragan of Traianopolis, appears in the Notitiae Episcopatuum as an autocephalous archdiocese. Its bishops Georgius and Theophylactus were present respectively at the Second Council of Constantinople (553) and the Second Council of Nicaea (787). Stephanus was at both the Council of Constantinople (869) and the Council of Constantinople (879).Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 1203-1204Raymond Janin, v. Cypsela, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, Paris 1956, coll. 1161-1162 No longer a residential bishopric, Cypsela is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 870
Climate İpsala has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa), with hot, dry summers, and somewhat cold, moderately wet winters.
References