National Holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2019
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: New Year's Day
- New Year's Day is a public holiday in all countries that observe the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel
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: New Year's Holiday
- Some countries observe a second public holiday for New Year's celebration
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: Orthodox Christmas Eve
- Celebrated on the day before Orthodox Christmas
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: Orthodox Christmas
- The only Orthodox churches that still observe the 7 January date are the Russian Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian churches, the Serbs and the Mount Athos monks in Greece
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: Orthodox New Year's Day
- Known as Old New Year, New Year in the Julian calandar falls on 14 January in the Gregorian Calendar
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: Independence Day
- Marks independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992.
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: Good Friday (Catholic)
- Good Friday occurs on the Friday before Easter. The day commemorates the Crucifixion of Jesus.
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: Easter (Catholic)
- On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate the resurrection of the Jesus Christ after his crucifixion
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: Easter Monday (Catholic)
- Easter is probably the most important holiday of the Christian year, celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus
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: Good Friday (Orthodox)
- Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
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: Orthodox Easter Day
- Easter is the most significant religious holiday for the world's roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians. In the bible, it is the day when Mary Magdalene found that an empty tomb in the cave in which Jesus has been placed after his crucifixion.
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: Orthodox Easter Monday
- The Orthodox church uses the Julian calendar for the calculation of Easter, which can often mean that Orthodox Easter falls later than Easter observed elsewhere
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: Labour Day
- This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement
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: Labour Day
- This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement
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: Victory Day
- Celebrates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War
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: Eid Al Fitr
- The festival of Eid al-Fitr, the Festival of Fast breaking, marks the end of Ramadan
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: Hijri New Year
- Marks Islamic New Year and the Prophet's journey from Mecca to Medina in 622AD.
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: All Saints' Day
- Pope Boniface IV dedicated the day as a holiday to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary and all martyrs
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: General Framework Agreement Day
- Marks the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement of 1995 which brought the Bosnian War to an end.
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: Statehood Day
- In 1943, the Anti-Fascist Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted a resolution declaring an equal community of Serbs, Muslims and Croats
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: Christmas (Catholic)
- Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC
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