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Chaharshanbe Suri
Jumping over bonfires to leave the year's ills behind.
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Chaharshanbe Suri · variable · eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz
Heritage · day to keep · variable · festival
Chaharshanbe Suri
Jumping over bonfires to leave the year's ills behind.
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Academy126 courses, none open for enrolment yetCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet
Kept byPersian-speaking communitiesAzerbaijani Turkic communitiesKurdish communitiesLur and Bakhtiari communitiesBaluch communitiesGilaki and Mazandarani communitiesZoroastrian communities
Chaharshanbe Suri
چهارشنبهسوریچهارشنبهسوری
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- eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz
eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz
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21 fixed-date days · this one in redJANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDECPS752 remembrance · 8 JanuaryWoman, Life, Freedom anniversary · 16 SeptemberNewroz (Kurdish new year) · 21 MarchRumi’s birthday · 30 SeptemberConstitutional Revolution, decree of 5 August 1906 · 5 AugustCyrus the Great and the Cyrus Cylinder · 29 OctoberBam earthquake remembrance · 26 DecemberHalabja remembrance · 16 MarchKurdish Journalism Day · 22 AprilKurdish Language Day · 15 MaySeb-i Arus (Rumi's wedding night) · 17 DecemberArmenian Christmas and Theophany · 6 JanuaryKha b-Nisan (Assyrian new year) · 1 AprilChristmas (Assyrian and Chaldean churches) · 25 DecemberForough Farrokhzad remembrance · 13 FebruarySadegh Hedayat remembrance · 9 AprilSardasht chemical attack remembrance · 28 JuneIran Air Flight 655 remembrance · 3 JulyManjil-Rudbar earthquake remembrance · 21 JuneKermanshah earthquake remembrance · 12 NovemberBaloch Culture Day · 2 March
Chaharshanbe Suri moves with its calendar (variable), so it has no fixed place on this strip.
Fixed-date days on the strip; movable days are listed by their own calendar.
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