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Nowruz

New year of the Solar Hijri calendar: haft-sin table, spring cleaning, visits and gifts. UNESCO Representative List; UN International Day of Nowruz, 21 March.

Heritage · day to keep · astronomical · festival

New year of the Solar Hijri calendar: haft-sin table, spring cleaning, visits and gifts. UNESCO Representative List; UN International Day of Nowruz, 21 March.

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Nowruz · astronomical · vernal equinox (about 20 to 21 March); 1 Farvardin

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Nowruz

نوروز

نوروز

Kind
festival
Calendar
astronomical
Date
vernal equinox (about 20 to 21 March); 1 Farvardin
vernal equinox (about 20 to 21 March); 1 Farvardin
secondary
Dates given by the calendar that fixes them; movable days move with it.

The year

21 fixed-date days · this one in red
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Nowruz moves with its calendar (astronomical), 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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Declaration of the Bábreligious
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