Sasha's Flower Garden

The Arabic term “Festival of Sacrifice”, ‘Īd ul-’Aḍḥā, was borrowed as a unit into Indic languages such as Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati and Bengali and Austronesian languages such as Malay and Indonesian. Another Arabic word for “sacrifice” is (Arabic: قربان‎ Qurbān), which is used in Dari Persian – Afghanistan and Iranian dialect of Persian as Eyde Ghorbân (Persian: عید قربان), and in Tajik Persian as Иди Қурбон (Idi Qurbon), into Kazakh as Құрбан айт (Qurban ayt), into Uyghur as Qurban Heyit, and also into various Indic languages. Other languages combined the Arabic word qurbān with local terms for “festival”, as in Kurdish (Cejna Qurbanê[4]), Pashto (Kurbaneyy Akhtar), Chinese (Chinese: 古尔邦节 Gúěrbāng Jié), Malay and Indonesian (Hari Raya Korban, Qurbani), and Turkish (Turkish: Kurban Bayramı). The Turkish term was later used in other languages such as Azeri (Qurban Bayramı), Tat... read more

“Unification Day” (Bulgarian: “Den on Sedinenieto”) – the national holiday of the Republic of Bulgaria, which is celebrated in this country every year, on September 6. The holiday is dedicated to an important event in the history of Bulgarian statehood – the unification of Bulgaria. Under the Treaty of Berlin in 1878 Bulgaria was divided into three parts: the Principality of Bulgaria (the capital of Sofia), an autonomous region of Eastern Rumelia (the capital – Plovdiv) and Macedonia, which is fully in control of the Ottoman Empire. The situation of the Bulgarians in Macedonia has been a very enviable, and many were forced to flee to Eastern Rumelia, which, together with the local population began to organize protests that ended in a military coup in June (18) September 1885, which was actively supported by the Bulgarian Prince Alexander Battenberg I. The result of the coup was an act of unification of Eastern Rumelia to... read more

Newroz spring equinox is originally from the Persian (Iranian) word Nouroz. The feast is derived from religion Zoroastrianism, which is an ancient Persian religion that was the prevailing religion throughout the Middle East during that time. Nouroz celebrated remains high in Persia (Iran). In 2010, recognized the UN General Assembly on 21 March, the International Day of Nouruz “. The General Assembly’s text describes nouruz as “a spring festival of Persian origin who celebrated in more than 4000 år. Minoritetsgrupper as Kurds (as well as other ethnic groups at that time belonged to the Persian Empire) took for themselves this holiday and celebrate this day at approximately similar to that Persians (Iranians). They call it in their language of Newroz. New Year’s celebration has its roots back several thousand years, at the time of the Aryans first settlement on the Iranian plateau, and is mentioned in ancient Iranian myths and legends. Be... read more