Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

Greenland’s National Day on 21 June is one of the most festive dates on the calendar. National day was first celebrated in Greenland in 1983 and is a day to express cultural and national unity as ...

Every 14 March is a public holiday in Andorra called “Constitution Day”. Constitution Day commemorates the day in 1993 when Andorra’s current constitution was approved by 74 percent of the voters in a ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Another reason that Christmas is a little more “low profile” in Albania is the lingering effects of decades of Communist rule. The Marxist ...

Every 1 March is Independence Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The day looks back to the date in 1992 when Bosnia declared its independence from Yugoslavia, when that former nation broke apart. In 2027, ...

Moldova celebrates Victory Day on 9 May to remember the end of World War II. It is a day to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany and to solemnly remember those who died in the war. It is also a time ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. As about 62 percent of the population is Roman Catholic, Holy Week masses are often attended on Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, ...

Slovakia celebrates Republic Day every 1 January to commemorate the date in 1993 when Slovakia became an independent nation. Known by several names in Slovakia, Republic Day is also referred to as ...

Independence Day in North Macedonia is celebrated on the 8th of September each year. If that date falls on a weekend, it is celebrated on a different day which is proclaimed by the North Macedonian ...

New Year’s Day is a holiday in Montenegro as part of celebrations that start on New Year’s Eve and reach a high point with the turning of the clock from 11:59pm on 31 December to midnight on 1 January ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Prešeren Day was first made a Slovenian holiday in 1944, but it didn’t become an off-work day until 1991. Some also keep the birthday of ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Victory Day is celebrated in Russia and in a number of other former Soviet Republics, but each country keeps the holiday in its own unique ...