Nowruz: Millions celebrate Persian New Year around the world
Millions of people around the world have celebrated Nowruz - a festival that marks the Persian New Year and the official beginning of spring./ Nowruz begins at the spring equinox, when the sun crosses the equator and day and night are equal length./ It is mainly celebrated in Iran, Afghanistan, the Kurdish regions of Iraq and Turkey as well as by Parsis in India and diaspora communities around the rest of the world./ This year - which in the Persian calendar is the year 1400 - celebrations in many places have had to take place amid ...
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