Berber calendar
About the Berber calendar
The agrarian calendar of the Amazigh peoples of North Africa follows the Julian calendar, so its new year, Yennayer, falls around 12 to 14 January in Gregorian terms. A year count from 950 BCE, linked to the accession of the pharaoh Shoshenq I, was proposed in the twentieth century and is now widely used. Algeria made Yennayer a national holiday from 2018, and Morocco followed from 2024.
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