Bulgaria (since September 1944)The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising or simply t he Ilinden Uprising of August 1903 (Bulgarian: Илинден 089;ко-Преображ енско въста 85;ие, Ilindensko-Preobrazhensko vastanie, (Macedonian: Или& #1085;денско восm 0;ание, Ilindensko vostanie) was an o rganized revolt against the Ottoman Empire, which was prepared and ca rried out by the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.[1] The Britis h researcher of the Balkans H. N. Brailsford wrote in his book Macedonia: Its Races and Their Future: "The moment for which the Bulga rian population had been preparing for ten years arrived on the festival of the Prophet Elijah's day — the evening of Sunday, August the 2nd , 1903." [2] At the same time on the othe r end of the SMARO's territory, in Eastern Th race, the leaders of the Adrianople Vilayet comitajis, ha d unanimously agreed that they were not ready for uprising, but of a feelin g of solidarity, had voted for a rising. So in Strandzha the rising had begun o n the Feast of the Transfiguration, Augus t 19, 1903.[3]
The rebellion in Macedonia affected most of the central and southwestern parts of the Monastir Vilayet receiving the support mainly of the local Bulgarian peasants and to some extent of t he Aro manian population of the region. Provisional government was established in the town of Kruševo (to the west of Prilep), where the insurgents proc laimed the Kruševo Republic under the p residency of the school teacher Nikola Karev, which was overrun after jus t ten days, on August 12.[4] On August 19, a closely r elated uprising organized by Bulgarian peasants in the Adrianople V ilayet led to the liberation of a large area in the Strandzha Mountains near the Black Sea coast, and the creation of a provisional government in Vassiliko, the Str andzha Republic. This lasted about twenty days before being put dow n by the Turks. [4]
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In antiquity, most of the territory
that is now the Republic of Macedonia was included in the kingdom of Paeonia, which was populated by the Paeonians, a people of Thracian orig
ins,[1
Bulgaria (since September 1944)
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Balli Kombëtar
The modern Albanian alphabet is based on
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DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Saint Clement of Ohrid (Old Church Slavonic: Климє́нтъ О
093;рїдьскъ, Bul
garian: Светl
0; Климент Охр&
#1080;дски [sveˈti ˈkliment ˈoxrids
ki]; ca. 840 – 916) was a medieval Bulgarian sai
nt, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs.[2][3][4] He wa
s the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and
Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts, especially their popularisa
tion among Christianised Slavs. He was the founder of
the Ohrid Literary School and is considered as a patro
n of education and language by most Slavic nations. He is regarded to be th
e first bishop of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
,[5]8]
Evidence about his life is scarce but a
ccording to his hagiography by Theophylact of Ohrid, Clem
ent was born in southwestern part of the Bulgarian Empire, in the
region then known as Kutmichevitsa.
New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first d ay of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as th e Julian calendar used in ancient Rome. With most countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, New Year's Day is the close st thing to being the world's only truly global public holiday, often celebrated wi th firew orks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts. January 1 on the J ulian calendar currently corresponds to January 14 on the Gregorian c alendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year. New Year's Day is a postal holiday in the United States.[1]
The Romans dedicated this day to Jan us, the god of gates, doors, and beginnings. After Julius Caesar reform ed the calendar in 46 BC and was subsequently murdered, the Roman Senate vo ted to deify him on the 1st January 42 BC < span>[2] in honor of his life and his institu tion of the new rationalized calendar.[3] The month originally owes its name to th e deity Janus, who had two faces, one looking forward and the other looking backward. This suggests that New Year's celebrations are founded on pagan traditions. Some have suggested this occurred in 153 BC, when it was stipulated that the two annual consuls (after whose names the years were identified) entered into off ice on that day, though no consensus exists on the matter.[4] Dates in March, coin ciding with the spring equinox, or commemorating the Annunciation of Jesus, along with a variety of Christian feast dates were used throughout the Middle Ages, though calendars often continued to display the months in columns runni ng from January to December.[citation needed]
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9;stesmæsse, literally "Christ's mass") is an annual commemora
tion of the birth of Jesus Christ,[5]
[
6] celebrated generally on December 25[2][3]<
/a>[4
] as a religious and cultural
holiday
by billions of people around the world. A feast
central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season
and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide.
[7] Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations,[8][9]
The precise year of Jesus' birth, which some historians place between 7 and 2
BC, is unknown.[13][14
] By the early-to-mid 4th century, Western C
hristianity had placed Christmas on December 25, a date later adopted i
n the East.[15][16] The date of Christm
as may have initially been chosen to correspond with the day exactly nine m
onths after the Annunciation, the date Christians believe Jesus to have b
een conceived,[17] as well as the date of the s
outhern solstice, i.e., the Roman winter solstice), with
a sun connection being possible because Christians consider Jesus to be the
"Sun of righteousness" prophesied in Malachi 4:2.[17][18]<
/sup>[19][20]
The baptism of Jesus marks the beginning of Jesus Christ's public ministry. This event is rec
orded in the Canonical Gospels of Matthew,
Mark and Luke. In John 1:29-33 rather than a direct narrative,
the Baptist bears witness to the episode.[2][3] The Baptism is one of the five major milestones in the gospel narr
ative of the life of Jesus, the others being Transfig
uration, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension.[4]
John the Baptist preac
hed a 'baptism with water', not of forgiveness but of penance or repentance
for the remission of sins (Luke 3:3), and
declared himself a forerunner to One who would baptize 'with the Holy Spiri
t and with fire' (Luke 3:16). In so doing
he was preparing the way for the Lord.[6] Jesus came to th
e
Jordan River where he was baptized by John at a site traditionally know
n as Qasr al-Yahud (the Jews' Castle).[6][7][8]<
sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference">[9][10][11] This eve
nt concluded with the heavens opening, a dove-like descent of the Holy Spirit, and a
voice from H
eaven saying, "This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased."[12] The
voice combines key phrases from the Old Testament: "My Son" (the Davidic ki
ng as God's adopted son in Psalms 2 and
Ramadan (Arabic: رمضان Ramaḍān, IPA: [rɑmɑˈdˤɑːn]; variationsPersian: Ramazan) is the ninth month of t he Islamic calendar, which lasts 29 or 30 days. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in whic h participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex during daylight hours and is intended to teach Muslims about patience, spirituality, humility and submissiveness to God. Muslims fast for the sake of God (Arabic: الله, trans: Allah) and to offer mor e prayer than usual. Compared to the solar cale ndar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving backwards by about eleven days each year depending on the moon; thus, a person will have fasted ever y day of the Gregorian calendar year in 34 years' time. Muslims believe Ram adan to be an auspicious month for the revelations of God to humankind, bei ng the month in which the first verses of the Qur'an were revea led to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.
The w
ord Ramadan is derived from an Arabic root R-
M-Ḍ, as in words like "ramiḍa" or "ar-ramaḍ" denoting intense heat,
scorched ground and shortness of rations. Ramadan, as a name for the month
, is of Islamic origin. Prior to Islam and the exclusion of intercalary days from the Islamic calendar, the name of the
month was Natiq and the month fell in the warm season.[2] The word was thus chosen as it we
ll represented the original climate of the month and the physiological cond
itions precipitated from fasting. In the Qur'an, God proclaims that "fasting has been writt
en down (as obligatory) upon you, as it was upon those before you". Accordi
ng to a hadith
, this might refer to the Jewish practice of fasting on Yom Kippur.[3]
International Women's Day (IWD), originally c
alled International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 e
very year.[1] In different regions the focus of the celebrations r
anges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards wo
men to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievement
s. Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the cultu
re of many countries, primarily Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet bloc. In many regions, the day lost its political flavou
r, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love for women in
a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother's Day and Valentin
e's Day. In other regions, however, the original political and human ri
ghts theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and politica
l and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out
and examined in a hopeful manner.
The first national Women's D
ay was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States following a declar
ation by the Socialist Party of America.[1] In August 1910, an International Women's Conference was organized t
o precede the general meeting of the Socialist Second Interna
tional in Copenhagen. Inspired in part by the American socialists, German
Socialist Luise Zietz proposed the establishment of an annual 'Internation
al Woman's Day' (singular) and was seconded by communist Clar
a Zetkin, although no date was specified at that conference.[2]<
/a> Delegates (100 women from 17 countries) agreed with the idea as a
strategy to promote equal rights, including suffrage, for women.[3] T
he following year, on 18 March, 1911, IWD was marked for the first time, by
over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire
alone, there were 300 demonstrations.[2] In Vienna, women
paraded on the Ringstrasse and carried banners honouri
ng the martyrs of the Paris Commune.[2] Women demanded
that women be given the right to vote and to hold public office. They also
protested against employment sex discrimination.[1] Americans con
tinued to celebrate National Women's Day on the last Sunday in February.
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April 6 (Western)
Good Frida
y (from the senses pious, holy of the word "good"),[1] is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is ob
served during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday pr
eceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Je
wish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Fri
day, Black Friday,[2
Labour Day or Labor Day is an annual holiday to celeb rate the economic and social achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight- hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours fo r recreation, and eight hours for rest.
Celebrating the Australian labour movement, the Labour Day public holiday is fixed by the various state a nd territory governments, and so varies considerably. It is the first M onday in October in the Australian Capital Te rritory, New South Wales and South Australia. In both < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria and Tasmania, it is the second Monday in March (though the latter calls it Eight Hours Day). In Western Australia, Lab our Day is the first Monday in March. In both Queensland and the No rthern Territory, it is the first Monday in May.
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h: Ēostre) or Pas
cha (Greek: Πάσχ&
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; from Hebrew: פ&
#1462;ּסַח Pesa
717;)[1
Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in rel ation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.[8] Ecclesiastically, th e equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, as tronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years), and the "Full Moon" is n ot necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefor e varies between 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Christianity< /a> bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March co rresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian c alendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.
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Forme rly, the post-Easter festivities involved a week of secular cel ebration, but in many places this was reduced to one day in the 19th centur y. Events include egg rolling competitions and, in predominantly Roman Catholic countries, dousing other peopl e with water which traditionally had been blessed with holy water the day bef ore at Easter Sunday Mass and carried home to bless the house and food.
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Saints Cyril and Methodius (Greek: Κύριλλο&sigmaf ; καὶ Μεθόδιο&si gmaf;, Old Church Slavonic: Кѷриллъ и Меѳодїи [more]) were < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Greeks" title="Byzantine Gre eks">Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century .[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Th ey were Christian missionaries among the Slavic peo ples of the First Bulgarian Empire, Great Moravia , and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cu ltural development of all Slavs, for which they received the title "Apos tles to the Slavs". They are credited with devising the Gla golitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic.[11] After their deaths, their pupils continued t heir missionary work among other Slavs. Both brothers are venerated in the Orthodox Church as saints with the title of "equ al-to-apostles". In 1880, Pope Leo XIII introduced their feast into the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1980, Pope John Paul II declared them co-patron s aints of Europe, together with Benedict of Nursia. [12]
The two brothers were born i
n
Thessaloniki – Cyril in 827–828 and Methodius in 815–
820. Cyril was reputedly the youngest of seven brothers; he was born Consta
ntine,[13] but took the name Cyril upon becoming a monk shortly before
his death,[14[16] according to the "Vita Cyrilli" ("The Life of Cyril"). Their father was Leo, a droungarios of the
Byzantine theme of Thessaloniki, and their m
other was Maria, who may have been a Slav.[17]