National Holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2023
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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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: 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 Orthodox Church recognises January 7th as the day that Jesus was born
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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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: Easter (Catholic)
- Easter Sunday is the most important date in the Christian church. In the bible, it is the day when Mary Magdalene found that an empty tomb in the cave in which Jesus had been placed.
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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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: Ramadan Bajram
- The festival of Eid al-Fitr, the Festival of Fast breaking, marks the end of Ramadan
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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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: Kurban Bajram
- Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice is the most important feast in the Muslim calendar. It celebrates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ishmael in submission to Allah's command, before he was stopped by Allah.
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: St. Vitus' Day
- Remembrance of the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. St Vitus's feast day is 15 June in the Julian calendar
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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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