There are several

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s in

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

. Public holidays were regulated in the constitution of the Azerbaijan SSR for the first time on 19 May 1921. They are now regulated by the Constitution of Azerbaijan.

Holidays

Main holidays

Other observances

National days in Azerbaijan that are working days follows: * 30 January – Day of Azerbaijani customs * 2 February – Day of Youth in Azerbaijan * 11 February – Day of Revenue Service * 26 February – Khojaly massacre commemoration day * 5 March – Day of Physical Culture and Sport * 23 March – Day of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources * 28 March – Day of National Security * 10 April – Day of the builder * 10 May – Flower Festival * 2 June – Day of Civil Aviation * 5 June – Day of Reclamation * 18 June – Human Rights Day * 20 June – Day of the gas sector * 2 July – Day of Azerbaijani Police * 9 July – Day of the employees of the diplomatic service * 22 July – National Press Day in Azerbaijan * 1 August – Day of Azerbaijani language and alphabet. * 2 August – National Day of Azerbaijani cinema * 15 September – Day of Knowledge * 18 September – Day of National Music * 20 September – Day of Azerbaijani Oil / Oil Workers' Day * 27 September –

Memorial Day Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) is a federal holiday in the United States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who have fought and died while serving in the United States armed forces. It is observed on the last Monda ...

* 1 October – Day of prosecutors in Azerbaijan * 13 October – Day of Azerbaijani Railway * 18 October – Independence Restoration Day * 6 November – Day of

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Employees * 12 November –

Constitution Day Constitution Day is a holiday to honour the constitution of a country. Constitution Day is often celebrated on the anniversary of the signing, promulgation or adoption of the constitution, or in some cases, to commemorate the change to constitut ...

* 17 November – National Revival Day * 22 November – Day of Justice of Azerbaijan * 6 December – Day of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan * 12 December – Memorial Day of Heydar Aliyev * 16 December – Day of Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations

Religious days

Only the holidays of Ramadan and

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remain as non-working religious days in Azerbaijan as the country is highly

secular Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin ''saeculum'', "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion. Anything that does not have an explicit reference to religion, either negativ ...

and irreligious. The religious population of the country, mainly in Nardaran and a number of other villages and regions celebrate the

Day of Ashura A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun. On average, this is 24 hours, 1440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds. In everyday life, the word "day" often refers to a solar day, which is the length between two s ...

, a Shia mourning day in the

Islamic calendar The Hijri calendar ( ar, ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, translit=al-taqwīm al-hijrī), also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 ...

. Religious minorities of the country – mainly Orthodox Christians and

Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

- also celebrate notable religious days of their faith.Azerbaijan's Udin ethnic minority celebrates Easter.
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Novruz Nowruz ( fa, نوروز, ; ), zh, 诺鲁孜节, ug, نەۋروز, ka, ნოვრუზ, ku, Newroz, he, נורוז, kk, Наурыз, ky, Нооруз, mn, Наурыз, ur, نوروز, tg, Наврӯз, tr, Nevruz, tk, Nowruz, ...

takes its roots from the religion of

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, almost all Azerbaijanis celebrates it as a holiday of spring.

References

External links

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{{Public holidays in Europe Azerbaijani culture Society of Azerbaijan

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