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Full calendar of holidays, religious festivals, celebrations affecting the course of business or airline and hotels reservations during the current 3 months bank holidays, public holidays, religious celebrations and observances affecting business or travel bank holidays, public holidays, religious North Macedonia (Rep. of)'s bank holidays, public holidays, religious celebrations and observances affecting business or travel in 2024

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    Sunday march 31, 2024EasterCatholic or protestant
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    Monday april 1, 2024Optional holidayCatholic
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    Monday april 8, 2024Optional holidaySecular holiday
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    Wednesday april 10, 2024End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)Muslim, Sufi
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    Wednesday may 1, 2024Labor Day/May DaySecular holiday
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    Friday may 3, 2024Optional holidayOrthodox
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    Monday may 6, 2024Orthodox Easter MondayOrthodox
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    Thursday may 23, 2024Optional holidaySecular holiday
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    Friday may 24, 2024St Cyrilus and St MethodiusOrthodox
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    Monday june 17, 2024Optional holidayMuslim, Sufi
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    Friday august 2, 2024IlindenSecular holiday
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    Wednesday august 28, 2024Optional holidayOrthodox
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    Sunday september 8, 2024Independence DaySecular holiday
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    Monday september 9, 2024Independence DaySecular holiday
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    Easter

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    Sunday march 31, 2024
    Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday

    Optional holiday

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    Monday april 1, 2024
    Catholic : Easter Monday only observed by the Catholic community

    Optional holiday

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    Monday april 8, 2024
    Secular holiday : Commemorates the First Rom World Congress in London in 1971. Marks the beginning of the first International Roma organization and the introduction of the name Rom (instead of Gypsy), and of the Romani anthem and flag, observed by the Roma community only

    End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day)

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    Wednesday april 10, 2024
    Muslim, Sufi : Ends the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. There were 30 days of strict fasting from sunup to sundown in honor of the first revelation to the Prophet Mohammed.

    Labor Day/May Day

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    Wednesday may 1, 2024
    Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .

    Optional holiday

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    Friday may 3, 2024
    Orthodox : Orthodox Good Friday only observed by the Orthodox community

    Orthodox Easter Monday

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    Monday may 6, 2024
    Orthodox : Vtor den Veligden

    Optional holiday

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    Thursday may 23, 2024
    Secular holiday : National Day of the Vlachs

    St Cyrilus and St Methodius

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    Friday may 24, 2024
    Orthodox : Commemorates the creation of the Slavic Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets by the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius. The celebration also commemorates the introduction of literacy and the preaching of the gospels in the Slavonic language by the brothers.

    Optional holiday

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    Monday june 17, 2024
    Muslim, Sufi : Eid Al-Adha also written Id al'Adha (or Eid Al-Adha) is the Feast of the Sacrifice , the second main celebration of Islam. It takes place on the tenth day of the twelfth -- last month of the Islamic calendar and celebrates Abraham's (also written Ibrahim) willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia. The Prophet Muhammad called Eid Al-Adha the best day of the year, since it is the last and biggest day of the annual pilgrimage. observed by the Muslim community

    Ilinden

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    Friday august 2, 2024
    Secular holiday : Commemorates the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising (Ilinden Uprising) of August 1903 which was an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire. Wikipedia

    Optional holiday

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    Wednesday august 28, 2024
    Orthodox : Golema Bogorodica (Dormition of the Holy Mother of God) only observed by the Orthodox community

    Independence Day

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    Sunday september 8, 2024
    Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Independence Day

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    Monday september 9, 2024
    Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday