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	CalendarHome.com - Zoroastrian calendar - Calendar Encyclopedia
		Norouz (or Navroz), the first day of spring, was an exception - The first and the sixth day of the month were celebrated as different occasions and the sixth day became more significant as Zoroasters’ birthday rather than as a continuation of the spring festival celebrations.
		Yazdegerd III had another reform prepared, but it was not implemented when the Arabs overthrew the dynasty.
		Following Alexander's conquest of Persia in 330 BCE, the Seleucids (312-248 BCE) instituted the Hellenic practice of dating by era, as opposed to dating by the reign of individual kings, and began the era of Alexander (now referred to as the Seleucid era).
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /Zoroastrian_calendar.htm (1461 words)

	S. H. Taqizadeh: Old Iranian Calendars
		Now the seventh 120-yearly intercalation must necessarily have been on the 840th year after the institution of the intercalation.
		As a matter of fact, the 840th year after 441 BC, the date we have assumed for the establishment of the vihêjakîk year, is AD 399, which is also the first year of Yazdegerd's reign.
		It is true that Biruni is not consistent in his statements in his different books about the date and number of the last and double intercalation.
	www.avesta.org /taqizad.htm (16035 words)

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