International Cyprus Marathon
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Sunday March 12, 2023
Sports events : Www.cyprusmarathon.com/ 2023 edition confirmed
Greek Independence Day
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Saturday March 25, 2023
Secular holiday : Upraise against the Ottoman rule in 1821 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday March 26, 2023
Special Events : At 1:00 am local times
EOKA Day
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Saturday April 1, 2023
Secular holiday : In the 1950's, Greek Cypriots, under the leadership of Archbishop Makarios, started a campaign for enosis (union with Greece). A Greek Cypriot secret organization called EOKA started guerrilla attacks on the British Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Easter holiday (beginning)
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Friday April 7, 2023
School holidays :
Orthodox Good Friday
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Friday April 14, 2023
Orthodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter (or Pascha) The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy. The Easter bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place: Midnight Office... After the service the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home. The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days. One egg is cracked on the wall of the church (and this is the first egg eaten The ritual of cracking the eggs takes place before the Easter lunch. Each person selects his/her egg. Then people take turns tapping their egg against the eggs of others, and the person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of May only be observed by the local Orthodox community.
Orthodox Holy Saturday
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Saturday April 15, 2023
Orthodox : Not a paid holiday
Orthodox Easter
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Sunday April 16, 2023
Orthodox : Paid holiday
Orthodox Easter Monday
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Monday April 17, 2023
Orthodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter(or Pascha).The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy.The Easter breads are a worldwide Orthodox tradition as well.This bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place:Midnight Office,Rush Procession,Matins & Divine Liturgy.After the service,the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home.The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days.One egg takes place before the Easter lunch.Each person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of good luck.The traditional Orthodox Paschal greeting is: Christ is Risen! .The answer is: Indeed He is Risen .
Easter Tuesday
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Tuesday April 18, 2023
Banks only :
Easter holiday (end)
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Monday April 24, 2023
School holidays :
Labor Day/May Day
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Monday May 1, 2023
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Mothers' Day
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Sunday May 14, 2023
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Whit Monday
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Monday June 5, 2023
Orthodox : In Cyprus, Kataklysma is the festival of the floods in seaside towns
St. Barnabas
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Sunday June 11, 2023
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 18, 2023
cards/flowers :
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday June 21, 2023
School holidays :
Assumption
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Tuesday August 15, 2023
Catholic : Dogma defined by the Catholic Church on November 1, 1950, when Pope Pius XII declared that at the end of her life, Mary's body and soul were assumed into Heaven.
Pafos Aphrodite Festival
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Friday September 1, 2023
Culture : Lasts 2 days
www.pafc.com.cy
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday September 11, 2023
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