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Yalda (Shab-e Chelleh)

Longest night: pomegranates, watermelon, nuts and Hafez divination; UNESCO inscription 2022.

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Yalda (Shab-e Chelleh)

Longest night: pomegranates, watermelon, nuts and Hafez divination; UNESCO inscription 2022.

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Yalda (Shab-e Chelleh)

شب یلدا

Kind: festival
Calendar: astronomical
Date: winter solstice (about 21 December)

winter solstice (about 21 December)

ikinji derejeli

Barla, çeşme goş ýa-da habar ber

Dates given by the calendar that fixes them; movable days move with it.

The year

21 fixed-date days · this one in red

JANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDECPS752 remembrance · 8 January Woman, Life, Freedom anniversary · 16 September Newroz (Kurdish new year) · 21 March Rumi’s birthday · 30 September Constitutional Revolution, decree of 5 August 1906 · 5 August Cyrus the Great and the Cyrus Cylinder · 29 October Bam earthquake remembrance · 26 December Halabja remembrance · 16 March Kurdish Journalism Day · 22 April Kurdish Language Day · 15 May Seb-i Arus (Rumi's wedding night) · 17 December Armenian Christmas and Theophany · 6 January Kha b-Nisan (Assyrian new year) · 1 April Christmas (Assyrian and Chaldean churches) · 25 December Forough Farrokhzad remembrance · 13 February Sadegh Hedayat remembrance · 9 April Sardasht chemical attack remembrance · 28 June Iran Air Flight 655 remembrance · 3 July Manjil-Rudbar earthquake remembrance · 21 June Kermanshah earthquake remembrance · 12 November Baloch Culture Day · 2 March

Yalda (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

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

Nowruzfestival

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Twelve days from 13 Jalál (April and May)

Ridvanreligious

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Counted from the Bahá’í new year at the March equinox (March)

Naw-Rúz (Bahá’í new year)religious

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Counted from the Bahá’í new year at the March equinox (April)

Ninth day of Ridvánreligious

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Counted from the Bahá’í new year at the March equinox (May)

Twelfth day of Ridvánreligious

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Counted from the Bahá’í new year at the March equinox (May)

Declaration of the Bábreligious

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