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A holiday is day set aside by a nation or culture (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for celebration but sometimes for some other kind of special culture-wide (or national) observation or activity.

A public holiday or legal holiday is a holiday endorsed by the state. Public holidays can be either religious, in which case they reflect the dominant religion in a country, or secular, in which case they are usually political or historical in character.

Based on the English words "holy" and "day," holidays originally represented special days of the Christian church calendar. The word has evolved in general usage to mean any special day, or even non-special day on which school or offices are closed such as Sunday.

Consecutive holidays are a string of holidays taken together without working days in between. They tend to be considered a good chance to take short trips, for example. In late 1990s, the Japanese government passed a law that increases the likehood of consecutive holidays by moving holidays fixed on certain day to a relative position in a month such as the second Monday. A well-known consecutive holiday in Japan is golden-week, roughly lasting a whole week.

In late 20-century, Saturday has become increasingly considered holiday as well as Sunday.

For farm holiday, see Agriturismo.

In the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, a holiday is also a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation (e.g., "I'm going on holiday to Majorca next week"), like an American "vacation".

Religious holidays

Jewish holidays

Main article: Jewish holidays

Christian holidays

Islamic/Muslim holidays

Hindu holidays

National holidays

  • Puplic holidays in Cyprus
    • 1st January - First Day of January
    • 10th March - Green Monday
    • 25th March - Greek Independence Day
    • 1st April - Cyprus National Day
    • 25thApril - Good Friday
    • 28th April - After Easter
    • 29th April - After Easter
    • 1st May - Labour Day
    • 16th June - Holy Spirit
    • 15th August - Assumption Day
    • 1st October - Cyprus Independence Day
    • 28th October - Greek National Day
    • 25th December - Christmas Day
    • 26th December - After Christmas Day


See Holidays in Sweden
See Holidays in Germany

Other holidays

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