Koliada

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Holiday.holiday_name: Koliada
Holiday.type: ethnic
Holiday.image: Trutovsky Kolyadki.jpg
Holiday.caption: Christmas carolers in Ukraine ("Little Russia") by K. Trutovsky
Holiday.nickname: Kolyada, Коледа, Kоляда, Коледе, Kalėda, Colindă
Holiday.observedby: Eastern European, Balts and Slavic people
Holiday.significance: celebration of New Year re-birth
Holiday.begins: January 6
Holiday.ends: January 7
Holiday.relatedto: Christmas traditions, Eastern Orthodox liturgical days
Holiday.firsttime: unknown

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Instance of: Christmas tradition
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Image: Рождественская открытка.jpg

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day in year for periodic occurrence: December 24
Commons category: Koliada
facet of: Slavs
on focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Ukraine

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Koliada or koleda (Cyrillic: каляда, коляда, коледа, колада, коледе) is the traditional Slavic name for the period from Christmas to Epiphany or, more generally, for Slavic Christmas-related rituals, some dating to pre-Christian times. It represents a festival or holiday, celebrated at the end of December to honor the sun during the Northern-hemisphere winter solstice. It also involves groups of singers who visit houses to sing carols.

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