Paradeisopoulos (Paradisopoulos), SofroniosПарадісопулос, Софроніос2023-02-142023-02-142021Port-Cities of the Northern Shore of the Black Sea: Institutional, Economic and Social Development, 18th – early 20th Centuries. Black Sea History Working Papers, vol. 2. / Evrydiki Sifneos, Oksana Υurkova and Valentina Shandra (eds). – Rethymnon : the Centre of Maritime History, IMS-FORTH, 2021.https://dspace.onu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/34491The term “marriage” is one of the most important categories for understanding the social structure of any society. Its historical and ethno-cultural variability gives an indication of philosophical notions of an elementary social organism – the family, which are implemented directly in the state of marriage typical of this society. Experts in historical demography say that “if the concept of marriage refers to a social institution, and the concept of getting married characterizes the individual act of creating a marriage alliance between a man and a woman, then the term nuptiality shall refer to a mass process of formation of married couples within the population as a combination of generations or within the generation as a set of people”.enNuptialityGreeks of OdessaRegisters of the Holy Trinity Greek ChurchBook chapter