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  2. Date palm - Wikipedia

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    Date nut bread, a type of cake, is very popular in the United States, especially around holidays. Dates are also processed into cubes, paste called 'ajwa, spread, date syrup or "honey" called "dibs" or rub in Libya, powder (date sugar), vinegar or alcohol. Vinegar made from dates was a traditional product of the Middle East.

  3. Medjool - Wikipedia

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    The Medjool date (Arabic: تمر المجهول - tamar al-majhūl. Tamar means 'date' and majhūl means 'unknown', from جَهِلَ jahila, 'to not know') [1] [2] also known as Medjoul, Mejhoul or Majhool, is a large, sweet cultivated variety of date (Phoenix dactylifera). It is an important commercial variety constituting some 25% of ...

  4. List of date cultivars - Wikipedia

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    The name is Arabic for 'green'; it is a cultivar favoured by many Arabs. It is a soft, very dark date. Khalaṣ: Djibouti; Sudan; Bahrain; India; Kuwait; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Syria: Arabic: خلاص: One of the major palm cultivars in Saudi Arabia. Its fruit is called Khlaṣ (خلاص).

  5. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Etymology unknown. The name dates to the "men of Chilli", [141] the survivors of the first Spanish expedition into the region in 1535 under Diego de Almagro. Almagro applied the name to the Mapocho valley, [142] but its further etymology is debated.

  6. Date - Wikipedia

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    Date or dates may refer to: Date (fruit) , the fruit of the date palm ( Phoenix dactylifera ) Jujube , also known as red date or Chinese date, the fruit of Ziziphus jujuba

  7. List of date formats by country - Wikipedia

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    Long date with weekday: onsdag(,) den 21. december 1994. Numeric date: 1994-06-07 [48] (The format dd.mm.(yy)yy is the traditional Danish date format. [49] The international format yyyy-mm-dd or yyyymmdd is also accepted, though this format is not commonly used. The formats d. 'month name' yyyy and in handwriting d/m-yy or d/m yyyy are also ...

  8. History of calendars - Wikipedia

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    Their names for the months and days are Parthian equivalents of the Avestan ones used previously, differing slightly from the Middle Persian names used by the Sassanians. For example, in Achaemenid times the modern Persian month 'Day' was called Dadvah (Creator), in Parthian it was Datush , and the Sassanians named it Dadv/Dai ( Dadar in Pahlavi).

  9. Calendar - Wikipedia

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    A full calendar system has a different calendar date for every day. [20] [21] Thus the week cycle is by itself not a full calendar system; [22] neither is a system to name the days within a year without a system for identifying the years. The simplest calendar system just counts time periods from a reference date. [23]