| Yearly events calendar
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January
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1 New Year. This is the beginning of the new year when people wish each other 'kali hronia.'
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6 Epiphany
February
March
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25 National Independence day. The day celebrating the revolt against the Turkish occupation which started in 1821.
April It is on April 30, 2000(dates vay depending on the year)
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27 Easter Thursday
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28 Easter Friday
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30 Easter
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May 1 Easter Monday
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23 Agios Giorgos / Saint George nameday.
May
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1 May Day. The day when Greeks collect flowers and make wreathes, which they hang on their doors.
June
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29 Agios Petros and Agios Pavlos day (Saint Paul and Peter Day).
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30 Agioi Apostoli/Apostles.
July
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18-19 Profitis Ilias. A big festival commemorated in many mountain tops where churches dedicated to Profitis Ilias (Prophet Elia) are found.
August
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6 Metamorfosis.
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15 Agias Panagias. Assumption of the Virgin Mary is widely celebrated, especially on Tinos Island.
September
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8 Genesis Panagias/Birth of Virgin Mary.
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14 Tou Stavrou/Of the Cross.
October
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26 Agios Dimitrios
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28 Ohi day, when the Greeks told the Italians 'No' (Ohi) in 1940.
November
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8 Mihail and Gabriel day.
December
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6 Agios Nikolaos.
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25 Christmas
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31 New Year's eve when children go from house to house singing carrols (kalanda).
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