site.bta80 Years Since Introduction of Mandatory Civil Marriage in Bulgaria
The original caption reads: "Civil marriage ceremony in the wedding hall of District Council I. Grigorina Ivanova Angelova enters into civil marriage with Nikolay D. Nikolchev, a mechanical engineering student, Sofia, September 27, 1952." In the background: the Sofia coat of arms and a bust of Georgi Dimitrov, leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party and 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
Eighty years ago, on May 12, 1945, the State Gazette published the Marriage Ordinance-Act, which came into force on May 27, 1945, when the first civil marriage in Sofia was registered. With this ordinance, civil marriage became the only valid form
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