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Bosnia (Rep. Srpska) : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months

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    Monday march 11, 2024MaslenitsaEvents, celebrations...
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    Sunday march 31, 2024Daylight Saving TimeSpecial Events
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    Friday april 26, 2024Spring holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Sunday april 28, 2024Palm SundayEvents, celebrations...
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    Wednesday may 1, 2024Labor Day/May DaySecular holiday
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    Thursday may 2, 2024Public holidaySecular holiday
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    Friday may 3, 2024Orthodox Good FridayOrthodox
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    Sunday may 5, 2024Orthodox EasterOrthodox
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    Monday may 6, 2024Orthodox Easter MondayOrthodox
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    Monday may 6, 2024Spring holiday (end)School holidays
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    Monday may 6, 2024Orthodox St. George's DayEvents, celebrations...
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    Thursday may 9, 2024Victory DaySecular holiday
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    Friday june 21, 2024Summer holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Friday june 28, 2024VidrovdanSecular holiday
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    Friday july 12, 2024St Peter & St PaulEvents, celebrations...
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    Wednesday august 28, 2024Orthodox AssumptionBanks only
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    Monday september 2, 2024Summer holiday (end)School holidays
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    Saturday september 21, 2024Nativity of the Blessed Virgin MaryEvents, celebrations...
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    Saturday september 28, 2024International Day of the Bosniancards/flowers
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    Maslenitsa

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    Monday march 11, 2024
    Culture : Maslenitsa (also known as Butter Week, Pancake week, or Cheesefare Week) has its origins in both pagan and Christian traditions. In Slavic mythology, Maslenitsa is a sun festival, celebrating the imminent end of the winter. corresponds to the Western Christian Carnival.

    Daylight Saving Time

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    Sunday march 31, 2024
    Special Events : At 1:00 am local times

    Spring holiday (beginning)

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    Friday april 26, 2024
    School holidays :

    Palm Sunday

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    Sunday april 28, 2024
    Culture :

    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 .

    Public holiday

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    Thursday may 2, 2024
    Secular holiday :

    Orthodox Good Friday

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    Friday may 3, 2024
    Orthodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter (or Pascha) The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy. The Easter bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place: Midnight Office... After the service the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home. The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days. One egg is cracked on the wall of the church (and this is the first egg eaten The ritual of cracking the eggs takes place before the Easter lunch. Each person selects his/her egg. Then people take turns tapping their egg against the eggs of others, and the person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of May only be observed by the local Orthodox community.

    Orthodox Easter

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    Sunday may 5, 2024
    Orthodox : Paid holiday

    Orthodox Easter Monday

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    Monday may 6, 2024
    Orthodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter(or Pascha).The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy.The Easter breads are a worldwide Orthodox tradition as well.This bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place:Midnight Office,Rush Procession,Matins & Divine Liturgy.After the service,the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home.The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days.One egg takes place before the Easter lunch.Each person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of good luck.The traditional Orthodox Paschal greeting is: Christ is Risen! .The answer is: Indeed He is Risen . May only be observed by the local Orthodox community.

    Spring holiday (end)

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    Monday may 6, 2024
    School holidays :

    Orthodox St. George's Day

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    Monday may 6, 2024
    Culture :

    Victory Day

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    Thursday may 9, 2024
    Secular holiday : Capitulation of Nazi forces to the Allies (the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and other principal Allied nations) in Berlin on May 8, 1945. It is celebrated in the successor states to the Soviet Union on May 9, because when the German Instrument of Surrender was signed (in the midnight), it was already May 9 in the USSR and Eastern Europe.

    Summer holiday (beginning)

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    Friday june 21, 2024
    School holidays : For students of the eighth grade

    Vidrovdan

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    Friday june 28, 2024
    Secular holiday : Memorial day to Saint Prince Lazar and the Serbian holy martyrs who gave their lives to defend their faith during the epic Battle of Kosovo against Ottoman Empire on June 28, 1389.

    St Peter & St Paul

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    Friday july 12, 2024
    Culture : Petrovan

    Orthodox Assumption

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

    Summer holiday (end)

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    Monday september 2, 2024
    School holidays :

    Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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    Saturday september 21, 2024
    Culture : In the Greek Church the apodosis (solution) of the feast takes place 12 Sept., on account of the feast and the solemnity of the Exaltation of the Cross, 13 and 14 Sept. The Copts in Egypt and the Abyssinians celebrate Mary's Nativity on 1 May, and continue the feast under the name of Seed of Jacob 33 days (Anal. Juris Pont., xxi, 403); they also commemorate it on the first of every month (priv. letter from P. Baeteman, C.M., Alikiena). The Catholic Copts have adopted the Greek feast, but keep it 10 Sept. (Nilles, Kal. Man. , II, 696, 706).

    International Day of the Bosnian

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    Saturday september 28, 2024
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