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🇦🇲 Armenia and 2 moreVardavarՎարդավառ An Armenian midsummer festival where people playfully douse each other with waterFestival

🇦🇿 AzerbaijanNovruzNovruz Bayramı The Azerbaijani spring equinox festival of bonfires, sweets and sprouted wheatSeasonal · Feasts and festival meals

🇬🇪 Tbilisi, GeorgiaTbilisobaთბილისობა An annual October festival celebrating the culture, harvest, and history of TbilisiFestival

🇺🇿 Bukhara, UzbekistanNavruzNavroʻz The spring equinox festival celebrated across Uzbekistan with sumalak and family visits.Seasonal · Sweets given and shared

🇦🇲 Armenia and 1 moreTrndezտրնդեզ An Armenian fire feast forty days after Christmas, kept with bonfires and shared sweetsSpiritual · Feasts and festival meals

🇬🇪 GeorgiaAlaverdobaალავერდობა A harvest and saint's feast celebrated at Alaverdi Cathedral in eastern GeorgiaSpiritual

🇦🇲 Armenia and 5 moreFeast of the TransfigurationՊայծառակերպութիւն A Christian holy day marking the revelation of Christ's divine glory on Mount TaborSpiritual · Feasts and festival meals

🇦🇲 Armenia and 4 moreBlessing of the Throats A Christian prayer rite touching throats with crossed candles for protection from illnessSpiritual 🇬🇪 GeorgiaTheodore's Saturday The first Saturday of Lent, kept with boiled wheat and visits to the gravesSpiritual · Sweets given and shared

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Vardavar: Камалян001, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Novruz: Abutalub, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Alaverdoba: Grigory Gagarin, Public domain, source
Trndez: Armineaghayan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Navruz: dalbera, CC BY 2.0, source
Feast of the Transfiguration: Unknown artist, Public domain, source
Tbilisoba: DDohler, CC BY 2.0, source
Blessing of the Throats: © Ralph Hammann - Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, source

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