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Yazidi New Year
Yazidi festival / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yazidi New Year (Sersal) is called Çarşema Sor ("Red Wednesday")[1] or Çarşema Serê Nîsanê ("Wednesday at the beginning of April") in Kurmanji.[2] It falls in spring, on the first Wednesday[3] of the April and Nîsan months in the Julian and Seleucid calendars, i.e. the first Wednesday on or after 14 April according to the Gregorian calendar.[4][5]
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Yazidi New Year | |
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![]() Yazidi New Year festival at Lalish (18 April 2017) celebrating the start of the new year which begins the following day. | |
Observed by | Yazidis |
Type | Religious |
Frequency | Annual |
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