Four times a year, Roma boys and girls flock to the city of Stara Zagora for the “bride market”. Held on various religious holidays during the spring and summer, it’s a chance for Roma’s nomadic ...

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 ...

An unidentified number of Bulgarian girls, most of them of Roma origin, have reportedly engaged in immigration-related marriage fraud in Egypt. According to reports of Bulgarian daily 24 Hours, Roma ...

When a Roma from a southern Bulgarian clan is looking for a bride, he goes to the traditional gathering, which is at his folk stage in Stara Zagora each year in late winter or early spring - though as ...

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 ...