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Each religious community has its own set of holidays, on top of national holidaysWeekend: Saturday & SundayIF YOU NEED TRANSLATION INTO THIS COUNTRY's LANGUAGE(S): Albanese (4 million speakers), vernaculars, Macedonian, Serbian (14 million speakers) ...
Contact edit! Labor Day/May Day
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Monday may 1, 2023
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Optional holiday
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Tuesday may 23, 2023
Secular holiday : National Day of the Vlachs
St Cyrilus and St Methodius
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Wednesday may 24, 2023
Orthodox : Commemorates the creation of the Slavic Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets by the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius. The celebration also commemorates the introduction of literacy and the preaching of the gospels in the Slavonic language by the brothers.
Optional holiday
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Friday june 2, 2023
Banks only : All Souls' Day only observed by the Orthodox community
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 9, 2023
School holidays :
Optional holiday
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Thursday june 29, 2023
Muslim, Sufi : Eid Al-Adha also written Id al'Adha (or Eid Al-Adha) is the Feast of the Sacrifice , the second main celebration of Islam.
It takes place on the tenth day of the twelfth -- last month of the Islamic calendar and celebrates Abraham's (also written Ibrahim) willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia. The Prophet Muhammad called Eid Al-Adha the best day of the year, since it is the last and biggest day of the annual pilgrimage. observed by the Muslim community
El am Hejir New Year (may be changed to the nearest day)
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Wednesday july 19, 2023
cards/flowers :
Ilinden
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Wednesday august 2, 2023
Secular holiday : Commemorates the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising (Ilinden Uprising) of August 1903 which was an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire. Wikipedia
Optional holiday
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Monday august 28, 2023
Orthodox : Golema Bogorodica (Dormition of the Holy Mother of God) only observed by the Orthodox community
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday september 4, 2023
School holidays :
Independence Day
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Friday september 8, 2023
Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Rosh Hashanah
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Saturday september 16, 2023
cards/flowers : Jewish New Year
Optional holiday
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Monday september 25, 2023
Jewish : Yom Kippur
International Day of the Bosnian
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Thursday september 28, 2023
cards/flowers :
People's Uprise
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Wednesday october 11, 2023
Secular holiday :
Revolution Day
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Monday october 23, 2023
Secular holiday :
Daylight Saving Time
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Sunday october 29, 2023
Special Events : At 1:00 a.m. local times
Optional holiday
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Wednesday november 1, 2023
Catholic : All Saints Day observed by the Catholic community only
Optional holiday
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Wednesday november 22, 2023
Secular holiday : Albanian Alphabet Day public holiday for the Albanian community
Banks are closed
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Saturday november 25, 2023
Banks only :
Arbor Day
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Monday november 27, 2023
Culture : Autumn tree-planting day - from 2013 onwards