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Tizi-Ouzou (Algeria)- "Tabburt u seggas" (door Amazigh New Year) or "Amenzu n'Yennayer" (the first of the month), opens January 12 of each year.

• This year, this day inaugurated the Amazigh calendar year 2960 whose point of departure dates from the year 950 BC. This calendar is based on the change of seasons and different growing cycles that determine the moments of the agricultural work, punctuated by the positioning of the stars, like the moon and sun. From a historical perspective, Yennayer back, according to a dominant hypothesis, the victory of Berber King Chachnaq I on Pharaoh Psoussenes II in the year 950 before Christ, which enabled him to conquer Egypt, where he founded the XXII dynasty with Bubastis as its capital.

  

  
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