Koliada
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Key facts
- 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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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.