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Yalda (Shab-e Chelleh)
Longest night: pomegranates, watermelon, nuts and Hafez divination; UNESCO inscription 2022.
Heritage · day to keep · astronomical · festival
Yalda (Shab-e Chelleh)
Longest night: pomegranates, watermelon, nuts and Hafez divination; UNESCO inscription 2022.
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Yalda (Shab-e Chelleh) · astronomical · winter solstice (about 21 December)
Kept byPersian-speaking communitiesAzerbaijani Turkic communitiesKurdish communitiesLur and Bakhtiari communitiesBaluch communitiesGilaki and Mazandarani communitiesZoroastrian communities
Yalda (Shab-e Chelleh)
شب یلداشب یلدا
- Kind
- festival
- Calendar
- astronomical
- Date
- winter solstice (about 21 December)
winter solstice (about 21 December)
Dates given by the calendar that fixes them; movable days move with it.
The year
21 fixed-date days · this one in redYalda (Shab-e Chelleh) 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.
Other days in the astronomical calendar
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