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The Iranian calendars or Iranian chronology ( Persian: گاهشماری ایرانی, Gâh-Şomâriye Irâni) are a succession of calendars created and used for over two millennia in Iran, also known as Persia. One of the longest chronological records in human history, the Iranian calendar has been modified many times for administrative ...
Solar Hijri calendar. The Solar Hijri calendar or (Iranian) Persian calendar [ a] is the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. It is a solar calendar and is the one Iranian calendar that is the most similar to the Gregorian calendar, it also is one of the most accurate in the world, being based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
The Shahanshahi calendar (also Shahenshahi, Shahenshai) or "imperial" calendar is the system described in Denkard, a 9th-century Zoroastrian text. It explicitly acknowledged several methods of intercalation: [ 24] a leap-day every 4 years; adding ten days every 40 years; a leap-month of 30 days once every 120 years;
Farvardin ( Persian: فروردین, Persian pronunciation: [fæɾvæɾˈdiːn] [ 1]) is the Iranian Persian name for the first month of the Solar Hijri calendar, [ 1] the official calendar of Iran, and corresponds with Aries on the Zodiac. Farvardin has thirty-one days. [ 1] It is the first month of the spring season ( Bahar ), and is followed ...
Islamic calendar stamp issued at King Khalid International Airport on 10 Rajab 1428 AH (24 July 2007 CE). The Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
Esfand ( Persian: اسفند, Persian pronunciation: [esˈfænd] [1]) is the twelfth and final month of the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. [1] Esfand has twenty-nine days [1] normally, and thirty during leap years. [2] It begins in February and ends in March of the Gregorian calendar [citation needed].
Aban ( Persian: آبان, Persian pronunciation: [ɒːˈbɒːn] [ 1]) is the eighth month of the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. [ 1] Aban has 30 days. [ 1] It begins in October and ends in November by the Gregorian calendar [citation needed]. Aban corresponds to the tropical astrological month of Scorpio.
In Iran, every celebrating family puts together a haft-seen, a table of items with symbolic, auspicious meanings, which include dried fruit, apples, garlic, vinegar, and sprouts that can grow ...