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The following is an incomplete list of festivals in Asia, with links to separate lists by country and region where applicable. This list includes festivals of diverse types, including regional festivals, commerce festivals, film festivals , folk festivals , carnivals , recurring festivals on holidays, and music festivals . [ 1 ]
The Nine Emperor Gods Festival (Min Nan Chinese: 九皇爺誕; Malay: Perayaan Sembilan Maharaja Dewa; Thai: เทศกาลกินเจ, เทศกาลกินผัก (ภาคใต้ประเทศไทย)) or Vegetarian Festival or Jay Festival is a nine-day Taoist celebration beginning on the eve of the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, celebrated primarily in ...
As most countries and cultures of South and Southeast Asia lie within the Indian cultural sphere, the development of their traditional calendars have been strongly influenced by some form of the Hindu calendar. As in many other calendars, the New Year was based on the northern hemisphere vernal equinox (the beginning of spring).
Asia's various modern cultural and religious spheres correspond roughly with the principal centers of civilization. West Asia (or Southwest Asia as Ian Morrison puts it, or sometimes referred to as the Middle East) has their cultural roots in the pioneering civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia, spawning the Persian, Arab, Ottoman empires, as well as the Abrahamic religions of ...
Sisophon, Battambang, and Angkor returned to King Sisowath, 1907. The name "Siem Reap" can be translated to mean 'defeat of Siam' (siem in Khmer), and is commonly taken as a reference to an incident in the centuries-old conflict between the Siamese and Khmer kingdoms, although this is probably apocryphal.
This has caused the region to be the most linguistically diverse region in the planet, [64] and as well as having four language families (Dravidian, Indo-European, Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman), hundreds of languages and thousands of dialects. [65] Many modern pieces of South Asian literature are written in English for a global audience.
The South Asian community in the UK organised the concept launch of the first South Asian Heritage Month event in July 2019 at the House of Commons.The concept launch was a collaboration between City Sikhs, Faiths Forum for London, The Grand Trunk Project and The Partition Commemoration Campaign. [4]
Mount Seir, a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba; Seir the Horite, chief of the Horites, a people mentioned in the Torah; Sa'ir, also Seir, a Palestinian town in the Hebron Governorate in the West Bank; Seir, a demon in the Ars Goetia; Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR), is a mid-ocean ridge in the southern ...