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The name svečan may relate to icicles or Candlemas. [8] This name originates from sičan, [9] written as svičan in the New Carniolan Almanac from 1775 and changed to its final form by Franc Metelko in his New Almanac from 1824. [8] The name was also spelled sečan, meaning "the month of cutting down of trees". [8]
July is the seventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., being the month of his birth. Before then it was called Quintilis, being the fifth month of the calendar that started with March. [1]
The Slavic names of the months have been preserved by a number of Slavic people in a variety of languages. The conventional month names in some of these languages are mixed, including names which show the influence of the Germanic calendar (particularly Slovene, Sorbian, and Polabian) [1] or names which are borrowed from the Gregorian calendar (particularly Polish and Kashubian), but they have ...
Other important astrological happenings to watch out for this month include Venus, the planet of love and pleasure, moving into flirtatious and creative Leo. Then, the second full moon in ...
The name means "a small holding back" and is a diminutive of the name of the following month. Phupu (Php.) (July) – everything seems completely dead and lifeless. Nature is holding back completely.
Boreas (Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhás) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. His name meant "North Wind" or "Devouring One". His name gives rise to the adjective "boreal". Khione (from χιών – chiōn, "snow") is the daughter of Boreas and Greek goddess of snow
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Julius (July) was renamed from Quintilis ("fifth" month) in honor of Julius Caesar, who had adopted his grand-nephew Octavian, the future Augustus, and made him his heir.It has sometimes been thought that the month has 31 days because Augustus wanted as many days in his month as in his predecessor's, but Sextilis in fact had 31 days since the reform during Caesar's dictatorship that created ...