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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Georgia

The list of Georgia bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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12 Aug 2008 (JSC Bank of Georgia) Nicholas Enukidze, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Central Bank of Georgia, announced late last night that the government of Georgia had declared a one-off bank holiday for today, Tuesday August 12, 2008. • 10 May 2003 (Kavkasia-Press-Tbilisi) Following a petition by the Georgian Orthodox Christian Church, and a resolution passed by the Georgian parliament, Georgian President, Eduard Shevardnadze, has declared that May 12 would henceforth be an annual public holiday in Georgia to commemorate Apostle Saint Andrew's feast day. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Georgia public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Georgia are regulated by The Labour Code of Georgia (CAP IV-Article 20), signed into law on May 25, 2006, and which annulled and replaced both the Labor Code of Georgia (June 28, 1973) and the Law of the Georgian Republic on Cancellation of Existing Holidays and Restoring Traditional Holidays (November 22, 1990). In addition, religious holidays and their observances are regulated by the Constitutional Agreement between State of Georgia and Georgian Apostolic Autocephaly Orthodox Church. • Weekend Public Holidays: Public holidays that occur on a weekend remain on that date (ie. they are not moved to another date, such as the following Monday, for example). • May 1st is a regular working day in Georgia . • Independence Restauration Day (April 9) and Independence Day (May 26): There is often confusion as to when Georgia's Independence Day is. The constitution refers to April 9 as the date of Georgia's independence while the Labour Code uses May 26 as the date of independence. On April 9, 1989, in Tbilisi, an anti-Soviet demonstration was dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries. Two years later, on April 9, 1991, the Georgian parliament officially passed a declaration of Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union, following the results of a referendum which had taken place on March 31st. Despite this, April 9 is called Independence Restauration Day, or Day of National Unity, and the Independence Day public holiday is celebrated on May 26 (referring to the May 26, 1918, declaration of independence from Russia). • Women's Day and Mothers' Day: The first, post-soviet, president of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, tried to get rid of March 8 as a state holiday as it was established during Soviet times, and he established March 3 as Mother's Day, a date deliberately selected to be close to March 8. After Gamsakhurdia's fall, March 3 was not cancelled but in 2002, March 8 was officially restored as the public holiday International Women's Day. At one time, officials tried to change Women's Day to concur with Tamaroba (Saint Tamar's Day) on May 14, but no one supported the idea . • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: National Bank of Georgia (Georgia central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Georgia, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Georgia, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Georgia, before planning any trip to Georgia. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.