National Holidays in Georgia in 2024
Upcoming Holidays in Georgia
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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 Holiday
- Some countries observe a second public holiday for New Year's celebration
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: New Year Holiday
- Some countries observe a second public holiday for New Year's celebration
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: New Year Holiday
- Some countries observe a second public holiday for New Year's celebration
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: Orthodox Christmas
- The Orthodox Church recognises 7 January as the day that Jesus was born
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: Orthodox Epiphany
- In the Orthodox tradition, Epiphany is the day that Jesus was baptised
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: Mother's Day
- Mother's Day in Georgia has been a public holiday since 1991.
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: International Women's Day
- The UN has declared March 8th to be a day to celebrate, recognise and remember women
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: Day of National Unity
- In 1989 an anti-Soviet demonstration was dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries
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: Orthodox Good Friday
- Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
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: Great 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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: Day of Victory over Fascism
- Celebrates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War
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: Saint Andrew the First-Called Day
- Celebration of the day that the Apostle Andrew came to Georgia to spread Christianity
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: Independence Day
- On May 26th 1918, the National Council of Georgia declared independence from the Russian Empire and the creation of Democratic Republic of Georgia
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: Saint Mary's Day
- The Feast of the Assumption is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin in the Orthodox Church, the mother of Jesus Christ
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: Day of Svetitskovloba
- This public holiday commemorates the first Christian church to be established in Georgia. According to tradition the shirt of Jesus is buried under the church
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: Saint George's Day
- Commemorates the torture of St. George on the wheel for refusing to make sacrifices to the Roman gods
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