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Maresca

Maresca

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Hi people,

we "Kurds" are celbrating today and tomorow our biggest Fest. It is the new year for us Kurds :weee: . This Fest is calles Newroz we have today the last day of the year 2617, and tomorow is at the same time the first day of Spring and of the new year 2618.


So happy Newroz for me and all other Kurds all over the world:D

Here are some Informations about Newroz and Kurds, if you want to know more:
Newroj meaning: new sun or new day) is the Kurdish New Year and the Kurdish version of the spring festival among the Kurdish people. It begins between 18th till 21th march. It is one of the few 'peoples celebrations’ that has survived and predates all the major religious festivals.

There are similar traditions for new year holiday in Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, parts of India. It is also celebrated in Turkey and various countries of Central Asia.

With this festival Kurds gather into the fairgrounds mostly outside the cities to welcome spring. Women wear gaily colored dresses and spangled head scarves and young men wave flags of green, yellow and red, the colors of the Kurdish people. By lighting fire and dancing around it they hold this festival.

The Kurdish greetings that accompany the festival are Newroz píroz be! meaning Happy Newroz! or Bijí Newroz! meaning Long live Newroz!
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History
According to the Kurdish legends, Newroz celebrates the overthrow of Zuhak (Dehaq) the tyrant, an Assyrian king in present day Kurdistan who had snakes growing out of his shoulders and required human sacrifices to control his affliction. He was eventually defeated when a brave blacksmith by the name of Kaveh led a revolt against him and freed the people. Kaveh then climbed to the top of the mountain above the castle and lit a large bonfire to tell all the people of Mesopotamia that they were free. Soon, hundreds of fires all over the land were lit to spread the message and the flames lept high into the night sky, lighting it up and cleansing the air of the smell of Zuhak and his evil deeds. The same way that Kurdish people still light fire in this day. In the reign of Sennacherib (705-682 BC) the House of the New Year, Akitu, was built and the festivities celebrated in the city. The new Year festival was usually canceled in Mesopotamia when the ruling King was not present in the city [3], [4].

Ziryab (789-857 C.) the Kurdish celebrated ex-Baghdad Abbasid courts' singer and musician, who fled to Andalusia was the first to introduce New Year festival to Spain and thence to Europe.
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In Modern times
The festival was illegal until 2000 in Turkey, where most of the Kurds live [5], and Turkish forces arrested Kurds celebrating Newroz [6]. In Newroz 1992 at least 70 people celebrating the festival were killed by Turkish security forces [7]. The official Turkey now celebrates Nevruz as a Turkish spring holiday. Newroz is however still considered as a potent symbol of Kurdish identity in Turkey. Newroz celebrations are usually organised by Kurdish cultural associations and pro-Kurdish political parties. Thus, the Democratic Society Party was a leading force in the organisation of the 2006 Newroz events throughout Turkey. In recent years the Newroz celebration gathers around 1 million participants in Diyarbakir, the biggest city of the Kurdish dominated Southeastern Turkey.

Newroz is banned in Syria. Several people were killed in clashes between Syrian authorities and Kurds in March 1986 during the spring festival of Newroz. In 1992, security forces carried out mass arrests after Kurds marked the 30th anniversary of the census which resulted in the deprivation of citizenship of tens of thousands of Kurds.

In 1995, the Syrian authorities banned the traditional Newroz celebrations and arrested dozens of Kurds, according to Amnesty. [8].

In Newroz 2006, Thousands of people across London celebrate Newroz as the traditional Kurdish New Year’s Day in March. The first day of the festival is on 21 March and there is a Kurdish Cultural Festival taking place throughout the month.

Mayor Ken Livingstone the Mayor of London says: Newroz is an ideal opportunity for Londoners of all backgrounds to celebrate, explore, and educate themselves about London’s Kurdish communities. It is my pleasure to wish you a Happy Newroz.
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Variations
People widely use fireworks during the festival.

There are also other traditions practiced in parts of Kurdistan such as Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan during the festival, for. ex. Helawe Melawe which is special to children and teenagers; They can ask for spring gifts from their kins or neighbours by visiting them at their homes and reading traditional short poems, such as:

Helawe Melawe!
Kureketan bé be zawe!
Hélkeyekim bo bixene bin tawe!...

Almost meaning: I've come for Newroz gift! wishing your son becomes a bridegroom! put a gift in the dish!...

In Iranian Kurdistan also people participate in two aditional traditionas called Chwarshambe sure (See the smoke over city of Bukan: [10]) and Sizdebedar which are in fact common among Persian people.
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Kurdish people
The Kurds are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey (a region commonly referred to as Kurdistan). Smaller communities can also be found in Lebanon, Armenia, and Azarbaijan (Kalbajar and Lachin, to the west of Nagorno Karabakh) and some Western countries.

Kurds speak the mostly mutually-intelligible dialects of the Kurdish language, which is an Indo-European languange of the Iranian branch. They are ethnically close to Iranians. [7] [8] Modern Kurds are commonly identified with the ancient Kingdom of Corduene inhabited by the Carduchi [9].

Ranging probably from 25 to 30 million people, the Kurds comprise one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a separate country. For over a century, many Kurds have campaigned and fought for the right to self-determination in an autonomous homeland known as "Kurdistan". Nevertheless, the governments of countries with sizable Kurdish populations are actively opposed to the possibility of a Kurdish state, believing such a development would require them to give up parts of their own national territories.
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Maresca

Maresca

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    Bozi.78 said:
    congrats alan have a great day
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    thank you brother, here in europe we can not celebrate the way we want..;) the big party is on saturday.. I am allready waiting for:D
     
    Tino

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    Maresca said:
    Tino, you can come to darmstadt.. the party will be amazing:D
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    I would love to come, but I think I cant realize it!

    1.problem: money
    2.problem: long drive!

    but in my thoughts, I will be with you and I see me lying with a bottle of beer in a corner!:disagree: :toast:

    Maybe you can make some pics and share them with us!:D
     
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    Maresca

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    Tino said:
    I would love to come, but I think I cant realize it!

    1.problem: money
    2.problem: long drive!

    but in my thoughts, I will be with you and I see me lying with a bottle of beer in a corner!:disagree: :toast:

    Maybe you can make some pics and share them with us!:D
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    OK; I see..
    I am gonna take some pics.:D
     
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    Maresca

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    poisonwoody said:
    err sorry bro....but i am not excatly sure who kurds are....

    frm turkey??muslims?
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    Kurdish people
    The Kurds are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey (a region commonly referred to as Kurdistan). Smaller communities can also be found in Lebanon, Armenia, and Azarbaijan (Kalbajar and Lachin, to the west of Nagorno Karabakh) and some Western countries.

    Kurds speak the mostly mutually-intelligible dialects of the Kurdish language, which is an Indo-European languange of the Iranian branch. They are ethnically close to Iranians. [7] [8] Modern Kurds are commonly identified with the ancient Kingdom of Corduene inhabited by the Carduchi [9].

    Ranging probably from 25 to 30 million people, the Kurds comprise one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a separate country. For over a century, many Kurds have campaigned and fought for the right to self-determination in an autonomous homeland known as "Kurdistan". Nevertheless, the governments of countries with sizable Kurdish populations are actively opposed to the possibility of a Kurdish state, believing such a development would require them to give up parts of their own national territories.
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    I guess some 70-80% of kurds are muslims
     
    Zé Tahir

    Zé Tahir

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    I have tons of Irani friends and even some Kurdish who're celebrating this today back in Sweden. Eid-ul-Newroz mubarik mate! (i hope that's right :D )
     
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