Ancient Macedonian calendar
The Ancient Macedonian calendar is a lunisolar calendar that was in use in ancient Macedon in the 1st millennium BC. It consisted of 12 synodic lunar months (i.e. 354 days per year), which needed intercalary months to stay in step with the seasons. By the time the calendar was being used across the Hellenistic world, seven total embolimoi (intercalary months) were being added in each 19-year Metonic cycle. The names of the ancient Macedonian Calendar remained in use in Syria even into the Christian era. The Macedonian calendar was in essence the Babylonian calendar with the substitution of Macedonian names for the Babylonian ones. An example of 6th century AD inscriptions from Decapolis, Jordan, bearing the Solar Macedonian calendar, starts from the month Audynaeus. The solar type was merg
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Ancient Macedonian calendar
The Ancient Macedonian calendar is a lunisolar calendar that was in use in ancient Macedon in the 1st millennium BC. It consisted of 12 synodic lunar months (i.e. 354 days per year), which needed intercalary months to stay in step with the seasons. By the time the calendar was being used across the Hellenistic world, seven total embolimoi (intercalary months) were being added in each 19-year Metonic cycle. The names of the ancient Macedonian Calendar remained in use in Syria even into the Christian era. The Macedonian calendar was in essence the Babylonian calendar with the substitution of Macedonian names for the Babylonian ones. An example of 6th century AD inscriptions from Decapolis, Jordan, bearing the Solar Macedonian calendar, starts from the month Audynaeus. The solar type was merg
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Die Reform des makedonischen K ...... n Kalender harmonisiert wurde.
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El calendario macedonio es un ...... un ciclo métonico de 19 años)
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Kalendarz macedoński – kalenda ...... był początkiem ery Seleucydów.
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L'antico calendario macedonico ...... volta in un ciclo di 19 anni).
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Le calendrier macédonien, en v ...... t comme le calendrier attique.
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O calendário macedónico ou cal ...... num ciclo metónico de 19 anos)
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The Ancient Macedonian calenda ...... ted once over a 19-year cycle)
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Die Reform des makedonischen K ...... n Kalender harmonisiert wurde.
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El calendario macedonio es un ...... nombre Audynaeus. Este tipo de
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Kalendarz macedoński – kalenda ...... edoński, zaczynający się od mi
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L'antico calendario macedonico ...... ziava con il mese di Audynaeus
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Le calendrier macédonien, en v ...... t comme le calendrier attique.
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O calendário macedónico ou cal ...... ada ciclo metónico de 19 anos.
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The Ancient Macedonian calenda ...... naeus. The solar type was merg
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Ancient Macedonian calendar
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Antico calendario macedonico
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Calendario macedonio
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Calendrier macédonien
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Calendário macedónico
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Kalendarz macedoński
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Makedonischer Kalender
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