Instead, young eligible bachelors from central Bulgaria, are here to find themselves a wife at a traditional "bride market". More than 2,000 Roma travellers converged on Mogila on one of the first ...
STARA ZAGORA, Bulgaria — Donka Hristova lets her mother pull her skintight mini-dress a half-inch down her leg. Checking her makeup one last time, she joins her two younger sisters in a provocative ...
POSING for selfies and dancing around a bedroom, they could be your typical teens. But these young Roma women will have a different fate than most. Only the young women from Bulgaria’s Kalaidzhi — an ...
A Roma girl poses during an open-air 'bride market' in the central village of Mogila, on March 12. The "bride market" -- held four times a year on various religious holidays during the spring and ...
Wife on sale The Romani people have a unique marriage tradition – a ‘bride market’ The market is held four times a year where families in the community arrange financially beneficial marriages for ...
The first Saturday in Lent feels like any other market day in this tiny village in central Bulgaria, but fruit and vegetable stalls are nowhere to be seen among the milling patrons. Instead, young ...