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At the end of Ramadan, people celebrate with a festival known as Eid al-Fitr. Eid al-Fitr is the earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Adha). The religious holiday is celebrated by Muslims worldwide because it marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan.
Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations in Victoria Park, Hong Kong. A harvest festival is an annual celebration which occurs around the time of the main harvest of a given region. Given regional differences in climates and crops, harvest festivals can be found at various times throughout the world.
This is a list of festival-related list articles on Wikipedia. A festival is an event of the ordinarily staged by a community , centering on and celebrating some unique aspect of that community and its traditions , often marked as a local or national holiday , mela , or eid .
Lists of music festivals by country (1 C, 11 P) A. Lists of festivals in Australia (2 P) C. Lists of festivals in Canada (2 C, 4 P) Lists of festivals in China (5 P)
One of Spain’s oddest festivals takes place in the town of Bunol, near Valencia, every August. It is celebrated in honour of the town’s patron saints, and is thought to have started around ...
Many different Asian countries celebrate the same holiday, including Indonesia andMalaysia. In Singapore, the new year celebration is a national public holiday that allows for time off school and ...
Festivals by country and year (3 C) Festivals by year and country (24 C) * Lists of festivals by country (21 C, 21 P) A. Festivals in Afghanistan (2 P)
In Finland (and many other countries around the globe), St. Lucia Day on December 13 is one of the main events of the holiday season. On this date, the eldest girl in each family sometimes dons a ...