ARMENIA
| Date 2009 |
Occasion |
| January 1-2 |
Jan New Year |
| January 6 |
Armenian Orthodox Christmas* |
| March 8 |
Women's Day |
| April 7 |
Motherhood and Beauty Day |
| April 10 |
Good Friday |
| April 24 |
Genocide Memorial Day |
| May 9 |
Victory and Peace Day |
| May 28 |
First Republic Day |
| July 5 |
Constitution Day |
| September 21 |
Independence Day |
| December 7 |
Earthquake Memorial Day |
| December 31 |
New Year's Eve. |
*This may be 8
December. There is some doubt as to whether it is a holiday or
merely a memorial day
Weekend Saturday, Sunday
You should know:
Christmas is still being celebrated in Armenia and in most Armenian
communities on the 6th of January, even though, according to the old
calendar, it should have moved to the 7th by now. It was celebrated
on the 7th by Armenians in Cyprus in 1997 but then reverted to the
6th. The same offset is true of other fixed feastes such as the
Feast of the Virgin Mary (15 August Julian Calendar = 27 August
Gregorian for the Armenians, not 28 as for the Orthodox.) It seems
that the calendar was fixed with regard to the Gregorian calendar
some time before the difference between the Julian and Gregorian
calendars reached 13 days.
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