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Map of the consequences of the Treaty of Berlin of 1878, whereby the blue area (Northern Dobruja) was given to Romania. Dobruja Day (Romanian: Ziua Dobrogei) is a holiday of Romania celebrated every 14 November that commemorates the incorporation of the region of Northern Dobruja into Romania on 14 November 1878.
The Romanian calendar is the Gregorian, adopted in 1919.However, the traditional Romanian calendar has its own names for the months.In modern Romania and Moldova, the Gregorian calendar is exclusively used for business and government transactions and predominates in popular use as well.
Date Romanian name English name Remarks 1-2 January Anul Nou: New Year's Day: 6 January Bobotează: Epiphany: Public holiday starting with 2024 [citation needed]: 7 January
Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars or, informally but more widely, lunisolar calendars.Typically, both types of calendar begin with a new moon but, whilst a lunar calendar year has a fixed number (usually twelve) of lunar months, lunisolar calendars have a variable number of lunar months, resetting the count periodically to resynchronise with the solar year.
Traditions, an 1895 bronze tympanum by Olin Levi Warner over the main entrance of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.. A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.
Bleuet de France, circa 1950. Remembrance Day (11 November) is a national holiday in France and Belgium. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at 11:00 am—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."
1623 – Philippe de Mornay, French theorist and author (b. 1549) 1638 – Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1562) 1724 – Joseph Blake, English criminal (b. 1700) 1812 – Platon Levshin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1737) 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave and rebel leader (b. 1800)
The term of sorcova comes from the Bulgarian word surov (tender green), allusion to the budded twig, broken from a tree, especially a fir tree.Some etymologists consider that sorcova derives from the Slavic word sorokŭ (forty): the recitative of sorcova consists of 40 syllabic groups corresponding to the 40 touches of sorcova.