:List of harvest festivals

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A harvest festival is an annual celebration which occurs around the time of the main harvest of a given region. Given regional differences in climates and crops, harvest festivals can be found at various times throughout the world.

Africa

  • Irreechaa: celebrated by the Oromo people in Ethiopia
  • Ikore: celebrated by the Yoruba people in Nigeria
  • Homowo: a harvest festival{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/nov02/homowo.html|title=The LOC.GOV Wise Guide : Homowo|website=www.loc.gov}} celebrated by the Ga people of Ghana.
  • Incwala: celebrated by the people of Swaziland
  • New Yam Festival (Iwa ji): celebrated by the Igbo of Nigeria
  • Umkhosi Wokweshwama: celebrated by the Zulu people of South Africa
  • Mokete wa Mokopu: celebrated by the Makgolokwe-a-Mafhleng of South Africa
  • Guetna (Juny) : date harvest festival in Mauritania
  • Afsay n tmuqqint (24 July) : fig harvest festival in Kabylia and Aures, Algeria
  • Timechret uzemur (7 December) : olive harvest festival in Kabylia and Aures, Algeria
  • Tfaska n tnunbiya (May) : barley harvest festival in Mzab, Algeria
  • Moussem tamrat (October) : date harvest festival at Arfoud, in morocco
  • Moussem tamrat fTaghit (October) : date harvest festival in Saoura, Algeria
  • Moussem l3nab (August) : grape harvest festival at Benslimane, Morocco
  • Moussem lfrizat (May) : strawberry harvest festival in Skikda, Algeria
  • Moussem hab lmuluk (Juny) : cherry harvest festival at Sefrou, Morocco
  • Moussem louzat (February) : almond harvest festival at Tafraout, Morocco
  • 3insla/3insra/3ansert/Tfaska l3ansert (7 July) : wheat harvest festival in all Maghreb (Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria)

Asia

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  • Hasyl toýy (or Hasyl Bayramy): Turkmenistan: traditionally last Sunday in November; observed second Sunday of November{{Cite web|date=November 8, 2019|title=The Programme of the Harvest Festival to include cultural, educational and sport events|url=http://tdh.gov.tm/news/en/articles.aspx&article20438&cat31|access-date=2020-10-11|publisher=Turkmenistan State News Agency}} since specified in the Labor Code c. 2017
  • Mehregan: Iran, Ancient Persia; 2 October
  • Sukkot: Jewish harvest festival lasting eight days in the autumn, in which time is spent in tabernacles or booths
  • Shavuot: Jewish harvest festival marking the wheat harvest in Israel
  • Alaverdoba and Rtveli: Georgia

Europe

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  • Bagach (Багач): Belarus
  • Bénichon: celebrated (usually by a huge seven-course menu) in Catholic parts of the French-speaking Switzerland; a combined harvest festival, thanksgiving and Rindya (the day when the animals are brought back from the high altitude pastures in the Alps and when all villagers are also therefore back); see :fr:Bénichon
  • Dankdag voor Gewas en Arbeid: Netherlands, every first Wednesday of November; Thanksgiving Day for crop and labor
  • Dożynki: Poland / Dazhynki: Belarus[http://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/photo/national-harvesting-festival-dazhynki-2010-in-lida_ti_87_0000000426.html Dazhynki in pictures] / Dožínky, Obžinky: Czech Republic / Обжинки (Obzhynky or Obzhynky): Ukraine / Обжинки (Obzhynki), Осенины (Oseniny) : Russia, a Slavic harvest festival celebrated in several central and eastern European countries
  • Erntedankfest (Harvest Thanksgiving): Germany and Austria; traditionally on the first Sunday after Michaelmas, this means 30 September or later. At present, Protestant and Catholic churches recommend the first Sunday in October.
  • Erntedankfest Düsseldorf-Urdenbach
  • Festa e Grurit (Wheat Festival): used to mark the end of the harvest of wheat in Communist Albania; no longer observed
  • Freyfaxi (1 August): marks the beginning of the harvest in Norse paganism; historically from Iceland, the celebration consists of blót, horse races, martial sports, and other events, often dedicated to the god Freyr
  • Guldize: Cornwall, United Kingdom
  • Harvest festival: United Kingdom
  • Kekri: an old Finnish feast celebrated at the beginning of November, corresponding to Halloween
  • Lammas or Lughnasadh: celebration of first harvest/grain harvest in Paganism and Wicca spirituality and by the ancient Celts; 1 August
  • Mabon (Autumnal Equinox): the second of three recognized harvest sabbats in Paganism and Wicca
  • Mhellia: Isle of Man
  • Miķeļdiena: harvest festival in Latvia; 29 September; signals the end of summer (Mikeli)

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  • Прачыстая 'Prachystaya': Belarus
  • The Presidential Harvest Festival in Spała and Jasna Góra Harvest Festival: Poland, first week of September to begin the first week of October
  • Samhain: the third and final of three recognized harvest sabbats in Paganism and Wicca; celebration of the end of the harvest season and beginning of the Celtic New Year; 31 October
  • Savior of the Apple Feast Day: Russia, Ukraine; 19 August
  • Spice wreath / Cununa de spice: Romania; July
  • Szüreti Fesztivál or Szüreti Napok: literally "harvest festival" or "harvest days"; celebrated in various rural towns of Hungary
  • Timoleague: annual harvest festival held in August; Tigh Molaige in Irish
  • Ziua Recoltei (sau Festivalul Recoltei): Romania; 15 October[https://www.radiooltenia.ro/ziua-recoltei-duminica-la-targu-jiu/ Ziua Recoltei, duminică, la Târgu Jiu]

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The Americas

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Prosser, Washington

|Annual Harvest Festival

|4th full weekend in September

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New Prague, Minnesota

|Dozinky, traditional Czech festival

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Canada

|Thanksgiving
(Quebec: Action de grâce)

|second Monday in October

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United States

|Thanksgiving

|fourth Thursday in November

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New England region
of the United States

|Old Home Week

|variable date in the fall season

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=Caribbean=

=South America=

References

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