| New Year's Day - Saturday January 1, 2022 Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Winter holiday (end) - Sunday January 2, 2022 School holidays :
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| Amazigh New Year - Wednesday January 12, 2022 Secular holiday : The Berber calendar, a legacy of Roman Mauretania, is a surviving form of the ancient Julian calendar, the calendar used in Europe before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar. with month names derived from Latin.It is employed to regulate the seasonal agricultural works, in place of the Islamic calendar, a lunar calendar considered ill-adapted for agriculture. A national holiday from 2018 on
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| Prophet's Anniversary - Eid-Milad Nnabi (may be changed to the nearest day) - Tuesday October 19, 2021 Muslim, Sufi : Birthday of the Prophet, Mohammed. For nine days there are Parties with fairs, feasting, and parades. Stories are told about how the mountains danced when Mohammed was born, and sang, There is no god but Allah. The trees answered, And Mohammed is his Prophet. Then 7,000 angels brought a golden vase filled with heavenly dew, and his mother bathed the new baby in it. Many stories like these are told to Arab children on the Prophet's Birthday, the happiest day in the Moslem year.
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| National Press Day - Saturday October 22, 2022 Culture : In honour of the publication, on October 22, 1955, of the first issue of the newspaper ‘El Mouqawama El Djazairia’, organ of the National Liberation Front (FLN) and the National Liberation Army (ALN). from 2013 onwards
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| Revolution Day - Monday November 1, 2021 Secular holiday : It symbolises the upheaval against the French since 1830 and the first attacks on Nov 1, 1954, by the National Liberation Front, against French-operated military installations
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| Algiers marathon - Saturday December 4, 2021 Sports events : in Medghacen 2021 edition confirmed
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| Salon de l'auto - Wednesday December 15, 2021 Tradeshows : Www.algeriesalons.com Centre des conventions d’Oran (CCO) 2021 edition confirmed
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| Winter holiday (beginning) - Thursday December 16, 2021 School holidays : Www.education.gov.dz
PISA ranking (average 493): 376
Languages: Arabic, Tamazight & French
Schooling is mandatory till age 15
Usually no school on Friday & Saturday
Pupils usually leave school one month earlier for summer holiday
No uniform required
Dates confirmed till Aug 2022
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