About: Martyrs' Day (Afghanistan)

An Entity of Type: Observation100879759, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

In May 2012, the National Assembly of Afghanistan is reported to have accepted September 9 (or September 8, variable per Solar Hijri calendar) as "a new national holiday to honour national hero Ahmad Shah Massoud and those who died fighting for the country." The date is set as a Shahrivar 18. Ahmad Shah Massoud was an Afghan military leader from Panjshir Valley. He was a leader of the resistance against the Soviet invasion and the Taliban. He was assassinated on September 9, 2001 in a suicide attack. Massoud Day is a holiday in Afghanistan that occurs each year as a commemoration of his death.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • In May 2012, the National Assembly of Afghanistan is reported to have accepted September 9 (or September 8, variable per Solar Hijri calendar) as "a new national holiday to honour national hero Ahmad Shah Massoud and those who died fighting for the country." The date is set as a Shahrivar 18. Ahmad Shah Massoud was an Afghan military leader from Panjshir Valley. He was a leader of the resistance against the Soviet invasion and the Taliban. He was assassinated on September 9, 2001 in a suicide attack. Massoud Day is a holiday in Afghanistan that occurs each year as a commemoration of his death. On September 8, 2012, Afghanistan celebrated Martyrs' Day. The holiday is celebrated as Haftai Shahid, or "Martyr Week". It is also observed as Massoud Day. (en)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 36955855 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1924 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1098113654 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:bot
  • InternetArchiveBot (en)
dbp:date
  • June 2017 (en)
dbp:fixAttempted
  • yes (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • In May 2012, the National Assembly of Afghanistan is reported to have accepted September 9 (or September 8, variable per Solar Hijri calendar) as "a new national holiday to honour national hero Ahmad Shah Massoud and those who died fighting for the country." The date is set as a Shahrivar 18. Ahmad Shah Massoud was an Afghan military leader from Panjshir Valley. He was a leader of the resistance against the Soviet invasion and the Taliban. He was assassinated on September 9, 2001 in a suicide attack. Massoud Day is a holiday in Afghanistan that occurs each year as a commemoration of his death. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Martyrs' Day (Afghanistan) (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License