In Ethiopia, the birth year of Jesus Christ is recognized as seven or eight years later than the Gregorian, or “Western” calendar, which was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.

・Ethiopia celebrates its New Year, Enkutatash, which is based on the Ethiopian Orthodox calendar. ・The Ethiopian calendar is derived from the ancient Coptic and Julian calendars.

The Ethiopian calendar consists of 13 months, with 12 months of 30 days each and an extra month called Pagumē, which has five or six days depending on whether it is a leap year.

The huge country with its own 13-month calendar that's only just rung in 2017 While the rest of the world has been living in 2024 for the last 11 months, this African country only recently ...

In the Ethiopian calendar, a year does not have 12 months, but 13, and the main difference is that the extra month is shorter than the others, since each month has 30 days and the extra, called ...

The Ethiopian calendar is a solar calendar with 12 months (30 days each) plus an additional 13th month (Pagumē) with five or six days in leap years. It also has 365 days in a month.

As billions of people around the world celebrated the advent of the New Year on Wednesday, Ethiopians must still wait another 222 days to usher in their New Year – 2007. The Ethiopian calendar ...

Ms Clancey says although she has known about the Ethiopian calendar for a while, it still throws her a little sometimes. "It was something to get my head around, I'm like 'wait, so it's only 2017'?

The Ethiopian calendar runs several years behind the Gregorian calendar most other countries follow. “During Irreecha we pray to our almighty God, and we also offer our thanking ...