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Hafez Day

Iran's national calendar honours the poet Hafez of Shiraz on 20 Mehr. Many families read his ghazals on this day and on Yalda.

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Hafez Day · solar-hijri · 20 Mehr, Solar Hijri (October)

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Hafez Day

Iran's national calendar honours the poet Hafez of Shiraz on 20 Mehr. Many families read his ghazals on this day and on Yalda.

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Hafez Day

روز حافظ

روز حافظ

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solar-hijri
Date
20 Mehr, Solar Hijri (October)
20 Mehr, Solar Hijri (October)
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The year

21 fixed-date days · this one in red
JANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDECPS752 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

Hafez Day moves with its calendar (solar-hijri), so it has no fixed place on this strip.

Fixed-date days on the strip; movable days are listed by their own calendar.

Other days in the solar-hijri calendar

6
13 Farvardin (about 2 April)
Sizdah Bedarfestival
Open
13 Tir (about 3 to 4 July)
Tirganfestival
Open
16 Mehr (about 8 October)
Mehreganfestival
Open
10 Bahman (about 30 January)
Sadehfestival
Open
5 Esfand, Solar Hijri (February)
Sepandarmazganfestival
Open
2 Bahman, Solar Hijri (January)
Bahmanaganfestival
Open

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