Slavic carnivals are known under different names in various Slavic countries: Bulgarian: Сирни заговезни, Прошка, Поклади, romanized: Sirni zagovezni,...
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Maslenitsa (redirect from Carnival in Russia)
French-Canadian conductor Jacques Clément. Candlemas Slavic carnival Fašiangy (in Slovakia) Rio Carnival (in Brazil) Carnaval (in the Netherlands) Fat Thursday...
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Kukeri (category Slavic carnival)
Shetland Islands, Antarctica are named after the Bulgarian Kukeri. Slavic carnival Месни заговезни [bg] Русалии [bg] Старци [bg] Survakane Сурваки [bg]...
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specific Slavic cultures (e.g. Polish, Ukrainian.), see outlines for individual Slavic groups. Veche Slavic carnival Slavic literature Pre-Christian Slavic writing...
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Kurentovanje (category Slavic carnival)
Kurentovanje is Slovenia's most popular and ethnologically significant carnival event first organised in 1960 by Drago Hasl and his associates from cultural...
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Busójárás (redirect from Busójárás Carnival)
the Šokci living in the town of Mohács, Hungary, held at the end of the Carnival season ("Farsang"), ending the day before Ash Wednesday. The celebration...
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Hora (dance) (category Slavic carnival)
may have been "circle". Also, the words hora and oro are found in many Slavic languages and have the meaning of "round (dance)"; the verb oriti means...
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Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove...
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Fat Thursday (category Slavic carnival)
the last Thursday before Lent and is associated with the celebration of Carnival. Because Lent is a time of fasting, the days leading up to Ash Wednesday...
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Shrove Tuesday (category Slavic carnival)
the last day of the Christian liturgical season historically known as Carnival or Shrovetide, before the penitential season of Lent, related popular practices...
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Candlemas Festival of Veles Pre-Lent Maslenitsa (Cheesefare Week) Slavic carnival] Sfințișori (Forty Martyrs of Sebaste) Feast of the Annunciation Palm...
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Zvončari (redirect from Annual carnival bell ringers’ pageant from the Kastav area)
the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009. The custom dates to Slavic pagan antiquity and remains typical for this region. The primary task of...
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Candlemas Festival of Veles Pre-Lent Maslenitsa (Cheesefare Week) Slavic carnival] Sfințișori (Forty Martyrs of Sebaste) Feast of the Annunciation Palm...
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Apple Feast of the Saviour (category Slavic holidays)
Apple Spas (sometimes the Feast of the Saviour on the Hill) is an Eastern Slavic folk name for the Feast of the Transfiguration, which is observed in August...
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64th Kurentovanje (2024) (category Slavic carnival)
Kurentovanje 2024 is the upcoming 64th Ptuj carnival, organized by Ptuj Tourism Public Institute. Every night between 4 and 12 February, Kurents (Korants)...
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Candlemas Festival of Veles Pre-Lent Maslenitsa (Cheesefare Week) Slavic carnival] Sfințișori (Forty Martyrs of Sebaste) Feast of the Annunciation Palm...
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Leading the bear (category Slavic traditions)
bear (Silesian: Wodzynie bera) is a Slavic carnival tradition. It enjoyed brief popularity in the entire Slavic region, the practice still takes place...
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specific blessing of the nuts takes place during the celebration. On this day, slavic households prepare festive dishes with nuts such as pies with mushrooms...
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Dożynki (category Slavic words and phrases)
Prachystaya; Czech: Dožínky, Obžinky; Kashubian: Òżniwinë; Dormition) is a Slavic harvest festival. In pre-Christian times the feast usually fell on the autumn...
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(feminine Masopustová) is a Czech surname (meaning carnival), it may refer to: Masopust, the Slavic carnival Josef Masopust (1931–2015), Czech footballer Karel...
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63rd Kurentovanje (2023) (category Slavic carnival)
Kurentovanje 2023 is the upcoming 63rd Ptuj carnival, organized by Ptuj Tourism Public Institute. After two years of the pandemic and virtual events and...
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Koliada (category Slavic culture)
колада, коледе) is the traditional Slavic name for the period from Christmas to Epiphany or, more generally, for Slavic Christmas-related rituals, some dating...
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Saint Nicholas Day (section Orthodox Slavic countries)
potatoes or coal from Chort (čert) for their sins. The creature has roots in Slavic folklore; however, its influence has spread far beyond German borders, in...
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Radonitsa (category Slavic Easter traditions)
Orthodox Church as the festival of Radonitsa, the name of which comes from the Slavic word "radost'", meaning "joy." In Kievan Rus' the local name is "Krasnaya...
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readings. Its best-known feature is its concluding three-day festival, Carnival or Shrovetide. The pre-Lenten period begins with Septuagesima, first documented...
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Kupala Night (category Slavic holidays)
the Christian feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist and the East Slavic feast of Saint John's Eve. In folk tradition, it was revered as the day...
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Festival of Veles (category Slavic holidays)
(Veles' Day) is a holiday in honor of the Slavic god Veles, celebrated by rodnovers in February. Like other Slavic neopagans' holidays, the day of Veles is...
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George's Day in Spring (category Slavic holidays)
весенний, romanized: Yuryev den vesenniy, lit. 'George's Day in Spring'), is a Slavic religious holiday, the feast of Saint George celebrated on 23 April by the...
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Candlemas Festival of Veles Pre-Lent Maslenitsa (Cheesefare Week) Slavic carnival] Sfințișori (Forty Martyrs of Sebaste) Feast of the Annunciation Palm...
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Hlinsko and several municipalities in the surrounding area are known for Slavic carnival processions of masks. In 2010, this tradition known as "Shrovetide...
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