With the beginning of a new Gregorian year, which is the year 2023, many citizens are always eager to look up the date of holidays andofficial holidays Before the start of each new Gregorian year, especially as these holidays represent important occasions for them that they wish to celebrate, and are official holidays and public holidays in the country.
“The Seventh Day” provides its readers with details of the official holidays during the first month of the new year, January 2023, as follows:
– Christmas holidays:
Saturday 14 Jumada al-Akhira
Corresponding to January 7, 2023
– January 25 revelation:
Wednesday 3 Rajab
Corresponding to January 25, 2023
This is in addition to 4 days off per month, the “Friday” weekend.
And man since ancient times has been making calculations to determine the calendar, and a calendar is the Arabic translation of the Latin word calendar, which means the first day of the month, and many peoples have taken their own calendars, and examples of these calendars are the Pharaonic- Egyptian-Coptic calendar), the Gregorian-Gregorian calendar, the Jewish calendar and the calendar The Syriac calendar, the Roman calendar, the Persian calendar, the Greek calendar, the Babylonian calendar and the Hijri calendar.
And these calendars, while differing from each other in precise characteristics, can generally be summarized in two main types, one of which is solar; Its basis is the earth’s rotation around the sun, and the other is lunar; Its basis is the rotation of the moon around the earth, and a mixed third that combines the solar and lunar calendars, and we will explain the features in detail.
The first type is represented by two calendars, one of which is the Coptic calendar, as it is the official calendar of the Orthodox Coptic sect adopted to this day in their worship and religious occasions, as well as the use made of it by the peasants of Egypt in agriculture, and the second is the Gregorian calendar, given its prevalence in civil and economic life in most countries of the scientist.
As for the second type of calendars, it is lunar, represented by Hijri calendarfor its particular importance in the lives of Muslims in relation to their worship and religious occasions.
