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1–2 January – New Year holidays; 6 January – Christmas; 28 January – National Army Day; 8 March – International Women's Day; 21 April – Easter Monday; 24 April – Armenian Remembrance Day; 1 May – Labour Day; 9 May – Victory and Peace Day; 28 May – 1st Republic Day; 5 July – Constitution Day; 21 September - Independence Day
That same year in Lebanon, Aram I (head of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia) led the divine liturgy and ceremonial flag blessing in Antelias. [28] Also on the holiday in 2020, the Mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser proclaimed September the 21st as “Armenian Independence Day” in the United States capital city. [29]
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր Mets Yegherrni zoheri hishataki or) or Armenian Genocide Memorial Day [5] is a public holiday in Armenia and is observed by the Armenian diaspora on 24 April. [5] [6] It is held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915.
Today's the day to tell our story and come together as a community." Barseghyan said Armenian Remembrance Day serves as a reminder to acknowledge historical atrocities and as an opportunity to ...
It is also a means of refreshment on the usually hot and dry summer days of July or late June. Federation of Youth Clubs of Armenia (FYCA) each year organizes the "Vardavar International Festival" which is a cognitive, educational and cultural festival. Every year it takes place in the medieval monastery of Geghard and old pagan temple of Garni ...
President Joe Biden on Saturday plans to follow through on a campaign pledge to formally recognize that atrocities committed against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire more than a century ...
The Armenian calendar is based on an invariant year length of 365 days. Because a solar year is about 365.25 days and not 365 days, the correspondence between the Armenian calendar and both the solar year and the Julian calendar slowly drifted over time, shifting across a year of the Julian calendar once in 1,461 calendar years (see Sothic cycle).
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