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The Book of Calendars : Conversion Tables for Ancient, African, Near Eastern, Indian, Asian, Central American and Western Calendars /

Parise, Frank

The Book of Calendars : Conversion Tables for Ancient, African, Near Eastern, Indian, Asian, Central American and Western Calendars / Frank Parise. - 1 online resource (400 p.)

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- BABYLONIAN CALENDAR -- ERA OF NABONASSER -- MACEDONIAN CALENDAR -- SELEUCID CALENDAR AND ERA OF ANTIOCH -- SELEUCID CALENDAR -- SYRO-MACEDONIAN (GREEK) -- ERA OF ANTIOCH (GREEK) -- ERA OF ANTIOCH (SYRIAN) -- THE OLYMPIAD ERA -- OLYMPIC ERA -- THE ERA OF THE ARMENIANS -- ERA OF THE ARMENIANS -- THE ISLAMIC CALENDAR -- ISLAMIC CALENDAR -- FASLI (SOOR SAN) -- SOOR SAN CALENDAR -- ZOROASTRIAN CALENDAR -- ZOROASTERIAN CALENDAR -- YEZDEZRED AND JELALI CALENDARS -- YEZDEZRED CALENDAR -- JELALI CALENDAR -- AFRICA -- EGYPT -- COPTIC CALENDAR -- ETHIOPIAN CALENDAR -- MODERN NEAR EAST -- IRAN -- IRANIAN SOLAR HEGIRA -- AFGHANISTAN -- INDIA -- INDIAN CALENDARS -- SOUTHEAST ASIA -- SOUTHEAST ASIA -- FAR EAST -- THE CHINESE CALENDAR -- CHINESE AND JAPANESE CALENDARS -- TIBET -- CENTRAL AMERICA -- WESTERN CALENDARS -- EARLY NORTHERN EUROPEAN CALENDARS -- JULIAN AND GREGORIAN CALENDARS -- JULIAN AND GREGORIAN CALENDAR CONVERSIONS -- CHRISTIAN ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR -- THE ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR -- THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR -- SOVIET CALENDAR -- NEW YEAR'S DAY -- Index

restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

The book provides easy-to-use tables that translate the calendars of over sixty civilizations into the Julian and Gregorian calendars. An indispensable tool for scholars.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781463208684

10.31826/9781463208684 doi


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