Holidays in Tajikistan

 

March 20 - March 22, Nowruz

Nowruz as well as the International Day of Nowruz (March 21) - New Year's holiday on an astronomical solar calendar with the Iranian peoples, Turkic peoples.

The origin of this festival has its roots in pre-literate era of human history. The official status he had acquired in the Achaemenid Empire, the religious holiday of Zoroastrianism. Continues everywhere celebrated and after the Islamic conquest, until the present time. In modern times noted in the days that have the vernal equinox.

It should be noted that in the Middle East Nowruz is celebrated only by representatives of the peoples who lived there before the arrival of the Arabs spread Islam and the emergence of the Arab Caliphate. Accordingly, Nowruz, for example, is not celebrated by the Arabs in Iraq and Syria. In Turkey, from 1925 to 1991, officially celebrating Nowruz was banned. In Syria, Navruz is prohibited until now.

 

 

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