With the beginning of a new Gregorian year, which is the year 2023, many citizens are always keen to search for the date of the holidays andofficial holidays Before the beginning of each new Gregorian year, especially since these holidays represent important occasions for them that they are keen to celebrate, and they 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:
– Holiday Christmas:
Saturday 14 Jumada al-Akhira
Corresponding to January 7, 2023
– 25 January reveloution:
Wednesday 3 Rajab
Corresponding to January 25, 2023
This comes in addition to 4 days off per month, the “Friday” weekend.
And man since ancient times took calculations to determine the calendar, and a calendar is the Arabic translation of the Latin word calendar, meaning the first day of the month, and many peoples took their own calendars, and examples of these calendars are the Pharaonic-Egyptian-Coptic calendar), the Gregorian-Gregorian calendar, the Hebrew 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, although they differ in their precise characteristics from one another, 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 in some detail the features.
The first type is represented by two calendars, one of which is the Coptic calendar, as it is the official calendar of the Coptic Orthodox sect adopted until today in their worship and religious occasions, as well as the use 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 the scientist.
As for the second type of calendars, it is lunar, represented by the Hijri calendarbecause of its special importance in the lives of Muslims in relation to their worship and religious occasions.
