Key facts
- Native name
- תַּמּוּז ( Hebrew )
- Calendar
- Hebrew calendar
- Season
- Summer (Northern Hemisphere)
- Gregorian equivalent
- June–July
- Significant days
- Gimmel Tammuz Seventeenth of Tammuz
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Inscription at the Irish Jewish Museum, with Gregorian and Hebrew dates.
Tammuz (Hebrew: תַּמּוּז, Tammūz), or Tamuz, is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar, and the modern Assyrian calendar. It is a month of 29 days, which occurs on the Gregorian calendar around June–July.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tammuz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.