National Holidays in Bulgaria 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 Day (in lieu)
- As New Year's Day is on a Sunday in 2023, the following Monday will be a Public Holiday.
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: Liberation Day
- March 3rd is Bulgaria's National Day. It honours the Bulgarian volunteers who, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 with the assistance of Russian and Romania.
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: Orthodox Good Friday
- Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
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: Orthodox Holy Saturday
- Orthodox Holy Saturday takes place on the Day before Orthodox Easter.
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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 (in lieu)
- This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement
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: St. George's Day
- St. George is the patron saint of Portugal, Georgia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia, and many cities across Europe
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: St. George's Day (in lieu)
- As St. George's Day falls on Saturday in 2023, the following Monday will be a public holiday.
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: Day of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture
- Slavic missionaries Cyril (Constantine) and Metod (Methodius) came to Great Moravia
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: Unification Day
- Commemorates the unification of Eastern Rumelia and the Principality of Bulgaria on this day in 1885
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: Independence Day
- Bulgarian Independence Day marks Bulgaria's independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1908
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: Christmas Eve
- The highlight of Bulgarian Christmas Eve is a feast marking the end of the fasting of advent
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: Christmas Day
- Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC
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: Second Day of Christmas
- Several countries and regions around the world extend their public holidays for Christmas beyond 25th December
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: Third Day of Christmas
- The third day of Christmas is an additional holiday as Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday in 2023
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