A lot of Bulgarian paperwork that needs an English version has to do with property. Foreigners who bought a house on the Black Sea coast or in a village hold a notarial deed (нотариален акт), and Bulgarians living abroad who inherit a family home start with a certificate of heirs from the municipality. People working in the UK, Germany or Spain need their birth certificate, criminal record certificate and diplomas in English, and companies doing business in Bulgaria ask partners for a current-status certificate from the commercial register. Reglyph replaces the Cyrillic text with English and leaves the notary's stamp, registration numbers and signatures where they were, so the translation can be checked against the original line by line.
Bulgarian is written in Cyrillic, but it is not Russian. The letter ъ, silent in Russian, is a full vowel in Bulgarian; щ is read sht, not shch; and Russian ы, э and ё do not exist in Bulgarian at all. Read or transliterate a Bulgarian name the Russian way and it comes out wrong. Since 2009 Bulgaria has had a statutory transliteration system for names in passports and other documents, which writes щ as sht and ъ as a, so the city Търговище is Targovishte. Dates are written 15.03.2024 г., where г. abbreviates година (year). Bulgaria switched to the euro on 1 January 2026, so amounts on earlier documents are in лв. (leva).
These are the Bulgarian-language documents people most often translate to English — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
Drop in a scanned Bulgarian PDF (one from your phone's scanner app works) or a digital PDF. Image-only PDFs are fine — no text layer needed.
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Yes. The certificate of heirs (удостоверение за наследници) is usually issued by the municipality of the deceased's last permanent address and lists the heirs. The English version keeps its layout, with the names in the same order and position, and the property description, area and registration numbers in the notarial deed stay where they were. What kind of translation the transfer requires is up to the notary or office handling it.
Choose Bulgarian as the document language when you upload, and the names are read as Bulgarian. Compare the transliterated spelling with the passport anyway. Passports follow the statutory scheme, but it allows exceptions: some names keep a traditional spelling, and names of foreign origin keep their original form. Wherever a name will be used again, go by the passport spelling.
The ЕГН is Bulgaria's personal identification number: ten digits, the first six of which are the date of birth, so it is sensitive personal data. The English version keeps it on the page exactly as printed. If you only want to understand the document yourself, you can cover the number on the paper before scanning. Before sending the English version to anyone, consider whether they actually need that number.
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