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them more if they were uniform across the globe. Holidays and Festivals have a habit of
happening after you’ve worked out your travel schedule to the last nanosecond. Find
out how your trip figures with calendars around the world with JourneyMart’s
exhaustive list. |
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ARMENIA
Date 200 8 |
Occasion |
| January 1 |
New Year's
Day Holiday |
| January 6 |
Armenian
Christmas Day* |
| April 7 |
Motherhood
& Beauty Day |
| April
24 |
Armenian Genocide Memorial
Day |
| April
27 |
Orthodox Easter |
| May 9 |
Victory Day
(World War II) & Peace Day |
| May 28 |
Restoration of Armenia's
Statehood Day |
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July 23 |
Martyr's Day |
| September 21 |
Referendum
Day or Independence Day |
| December 7 |
Earthquake
Mourning Day* |
| December 31 |
Bank holiday |
| *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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