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Each religious community has its own set of holidays, on top of national holidaysWeekend: Saturday & SundayIF YOU NEED TRANSLATION INTO THIS COUNTRY's LANGUAGE(S): Albanese (4 million speakers), vernaculars, Macedonian, Serbian (14 million speakers) ...
Contact edit! Arbor Day
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Sunday March 12, 2023
Culture : From 2008 onwards
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday March 26, 2023
Special Events : At 1:00 am local times
Optional holiday
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Saturday April 8, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorates the First Rom World Congress in London in 1971. Marks the beginning of the first International Roma organization and the introduction of the name Rom (instead of Gypsy), and of the Romani anthem and flag, observed by the Roma community only
International Day of the Roma
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Saturday April 8, 2023
Culture : Celebrated by the Roma community only
Easter
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Sunday April 9, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
Palm Sunday
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Sunday April 9, 2023
Culture :
Optional holiday
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Monday April 10, 2023
Catholic : Easter Monday only observed by the Catholic community
Passover
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Wednesday April 12, 2023
cards/flowers : Deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus
Optional holiday
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Friday April 14, 2023
Orthodox : Orthodox Good Friday only observed by the Orthodox community
Orthodox Easter
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Sunday April 16, 2023
Culture : not a paid holiday
Orthodox Easter Monday
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Monday April 17, 2023
Orthodox : Vtor den Veligden
End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Friday April 21, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : Ends the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. There were 30 days of strict fasting from sunup to sundown in honor of the first revelation to the Prophet Mohammed.
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 .
Optional holiday
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Tuesday May 23, 2023
Secular holiday : National Day of the Vlachs
St Cyrilus and St Methodius
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Wednesday May 24, 2023
Orthodox : Commemorates the creation of the Slavic Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets by the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius. The celebration also commemorates the introduction of literacy and the preaching of the gospels in the Slavonic language by the brothers.
Optional holiday
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Friday June 2, 2023
Banks only : All Souls' Day only observed by the Orthodox community
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday June 9, 2023
School holidays :
Optional holiday
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Thursday June 29, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : Eid Al-Adha also written Id al'Adha (or Eid Al-Adha) is the Feast of the Sacrifice , the second main celebration of Islam.
It takes place on the tenth day of the twelfth -- last month of the Islamic calendar and celebrates Abraham's (also written Ibrahim) willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia. The Prophet Muhammad called Eid Al-Adha the best day of the year, since it is the last and biggest day of the annual pilgrimage. observed by the Muslim community
El am Hejir New Year (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday July 19, 2023
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Ilinden
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Wednesday August 2, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorates the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising (Ilinden Uprising) of August 1903 which was an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire. Wikipedia
Optional holiday
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Monday August 28, 2023
Orthodox : Golema Bogorodica (Dormition of the Holy Mother of God) only observed by the Orthodox community
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday September 4, 2023
School holidays :
Independence Day
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Friday September 8, 2023
Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Rosh Hashanah
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Saturday September 16, 2023
cards/flowers : Jewish New Year
Optional holiday
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Monday September 25, 2023
Jewish : Yom Kippur
International Day of the Bosnian
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Thursday September 28, 2023
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