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Wednesday may 1, 2024 | Labor Day/May Day | Secular holiday | |
Friday may 3, 2024 | Optional holiday | Orthodox | |
Monday may 6, 2024 | Orthodox Easter Monday | Orthodox | |
Wednesday may 8, 2024 | Public holiday | Secular holiday | |
Thursday may 23, 2024 | Optional holiday | Secular holiday | |
Friday may 24, 2024 | St Cyrilus and St Methodius | Orthodox | |
Monday june 17, 2024 | Optional holiday | Muslim, Sufi | |
Friday august 2, 2024 | Ilinden | Secular holiday | |
Wednesday august 28, 2024 | Optional holiday | Orthodox | |
Sunday september 8, 2024 | Independence Day | Secular holiday | |
Monday september 9, 2024 | Independence Day | Secular holiday | |
Friday october 11, 2024 | People's Uprise | Secular holiday | |
Sunday october 13, 2024 | Optional holiday | Jewish | |
Wednesday october 23, 2024 | Revolution Day | National Day | |
Labor Day/May Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
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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Friday may 3, 2024
Orthodox : Orthodox Good Friday only observed by the Orthodox community
Orthodox Easter Monday
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Monday may 6, 2024
Orthodox : Vtor den Veligden
Public holiday
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Wednesday may 8, 2024
Secular holiday :
Optional holiday
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Thursday may 23, 2024
Secular holiday : National Day of the Vlachs
St Cyrilus and St Methodius
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Friday may 24, 2024
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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Monday june 17, 2024
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
Ilinden
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Friday august 2, 2024
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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Wednesday august 28, 2024
Orthodox : Golema Bogorodica (Dormition of the Holy Mother of God) only observed by the Orthodox community
Independence Day
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Sunday september 8, 2024
Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Independence Day
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Monday september 9, 2024
Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
People's Uprise
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Friday october 11, 2024
Secular holiday :
Optional holiday
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Sunday october 13, 2024
Jewish : Yom Kippur
Revolution Day
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Wednesday october 23, 2024
Secular holiday :