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The seven-day week was adopted in early Christianity from the Hebrew calendar, and gradually replaced the Roman internundinum. [citation needed] Sunday remained the first day of the week, being considered the day of the sun god Sol Invictus and the Lord's Day, while the Jewish Sabbath remained the seventh.
The Balinese calendar has ten types of weeks (wewaran): Ékawara the one-day week, Dwiwara the two-day week, Triwara the three-day week, all the way until Dasawara the ten-day week. Igbo: 4 days: The traditional Igbo week consists of four market days: eke, orie, afor, and nkwo. Yoruba: 4 days: Traditional Yoruba calendar Korea: 5 days
Mass media by day of the week (2 C) O. Observances by weekday (7 C) ... Names of the days of the week; Determination of the day of the week; 0–9. Monday; Tuesday ...
The modern Hebrew calendar has been designed to ensure that certain holy days and festivals do not fall on certain days of the week. As a result, there are only four possible patterns of days on which festivals can fall. (Note that Jewish days start at sunset of the preceding day indicated in this article.)
The Hebrew week (שבוע, shavua) is a cycle of seven days, mirroring the seven-day period of the Book of Genesis in which the world is created. The names for the days of the week are simply the day number within the week. The week begins with Day 1 and ends with Shabbat . (More precisely, since days begin in the evening, weeks begin and end ...
Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the third day of the week. [1] In English, the name is derived from Old English Wōdnesdæg and Middle English Wednesdei, 'day of Woden', reflecting the religion practised by the Anglo-Saxons, the English equivalent to the Norse ...
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On 23 April 2008 it was reported that the cabinet of ministers of Turkmenistan discussed restoring the old names of the months and days of week. [2] The old names were restored in July 2008. [1] The original Roman calendar month names were borrowed from Russian. The adopted Turkmen month names were as follows:
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