IVREA (the ancient Eporeda), a town of Northern Italy, capital of a cognominal province, in the division of Turin, and kingdom of Sardinia, situate on the left bank of the Doire, 29 miles N.N.E. of Turin. It is an old-looking town, irregularly built and walled, besides being protected by a citadel and a small fortress upon an adjacent hill. It is the see of a bishop, and contains a cathedral supposed to occupy the site of a temple of Apollo, with six parish churches, several convents, a royal college, ecclesiastical seminary, hospital, &c. It has important manufactures of silk, and a considerable trade in cheese, cattle, and other produce of the Alps. It has been repeatedly taken by the French; and under Napoleon I. was made the capital of the department of Doire. Pop. about 8000.