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July Morning is an annual Bulgarian festival, celebrated on the night before and the first day of July. The festival is unique to Bulgaria but it is not universally observed in the country. In the days before the first day of July, people from across Bulgaria travel (often hitchhiking) to the Black Sea coast to meet the first sun rays on the ...
1 March - Baba Marta Day - Баба Марта. 8 March - International Women's Day - Ден на жената. 8 March - Mother's Day - Ден на майката. 6 May - Armed Forces Day - Ден на въоръжените сили St. George's Day.
8–14 January – 2024 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship Division II B at Sofia 13 March – Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte dies in Sofia at the age of 78. 31 March – Bulgaria and Romania partially join the Schengen Area, allowing travel by air and sea without border checks, Austria vetoed travel by land without border checks over fears that non-EU citizens could get easier access to the ...
Kupala Night (also Kupala's Night or just Kupala; Polish: Noc Kupały, Belarusian: Kupalle, Russian: Ivan Kupala, Kupala, Ukrainian: Ivan Kupalo) is one of the major folk holidays [1] of the Eastern Slavs [2] that coincides with the Christian feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist [1] and the East Slavic feast of Saint John's Eve.
Assumption. 1 November 2024. All Saints' Day. 2 November 2024. All Souls' Day. 24 to 31 December 2024 inclusive. End-of-year days, including Christmas. This list includes all ten public holidays in Belgium, except for Armistice Day (11 November). For Luxembourg, Belgian National Day is replaced by the Luxembourgish National Day .
The flag of Bulgaria ( Bulgarian: знаме на България, romanized : Zname na Bǎlgarija, [ˈznamɛ nɐ bɐɫˈɡarijɐ]) is a tricolour consisting of three equal-sized horizontal bands of (from top to bottom) white, green, and red. It was first adopted after the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), where Bulgaria regained independence.
Possibly the most celebrated name day in Bulgaria, St. George's Day (Гергьовден, Gergyovden) is a public holiday that takes place on 6 May each year. A common ritual is to prepare and eat a whole lamb , which is an ancient practice possibly related to Slavic pagan sacrificial traditions and the fact that St. George is the patron saint ...
Meanwhile, the July 1 holiday to commemorate Canada’s Confederation became official in 1879, and was originally called Dominion Day. It marks the day the British North America Act came into ...