DOWRY SYSTEM IN GREECE
(From a Reuter Correspondent)
ATHENS. A controversy is raging around the time-honoured custom that every girl shall bring a dowry to her husband on marriage.
The controversy follows a petition by 17 mayors of communities in the mountainous province of Roumeli, in South-eastern Greece, to Queen Frederika asking her to request the Government to introduce legislation suppressing the need for every unmarried girl to provide her future husband with a dowry.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27633, 14 April 1955, Page 5
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