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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Kosovo

The list of Kosovo bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2009, 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 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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13 Aug 2009 (Pakistan Daily-Lahore) Naeem Trafana, the head of the Islamic Sheikhdom in Kosovo, has announced that the first day of the month of Ramadan would be Friday, August 21, 2009, in conjunction with Macedonia, Bosnia, and Albania. • 24 May 2008 (Koha Ditore-Pristina) Yesterday, after 3 days of intense negotiations, the Assembly of the Republic of Kosova finally adopted the Law on Official Holidays. • 19 May 2008 (Novosti) The government cabinet of Kosovo has adopted a law setting forth the list of official public holidays in Kosovo. • 18 Feb 2008 (World Bank) Yesterday afternoon, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. For the moment many details such as the future flag and list of public holidays of this republic are tentative. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Kosovo 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: Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on Sunday, February 17, 2008. Prior to that date, its list of public holidays came from the international organisations that had been based in Kosovo since 1999, and uses as reference the 2001 Essential labour law in Kosovo (UNMIK Regulation No. 2001/27). • The current law on official holidays in the Republic of Kosovo (Pėr Festat Zyrtare nė Republikėn e Kosovės, Ligji Nr. 03/L-064, Official Gazette Of The Republic Of Kosova / Pristina: Year Iii / No. 30 / 15 June 2008), dates from June 15, 2008, and is based on article 65-1 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo (approved on June 15, 2008, but celebrated annually on April 9). • Weekend Public Holidays: As an official part of Serbia, public holidays that fell on a Sunday used to be moved to the next Monday, but the list of public holidays for the new republic will follow the Albanian list, which has both Saturdays and Sundays moved to the following Monday. For the moment, we have used the convention that only Sunday public holidays are moved to the following Monday. We will revise this, as we receive more information from our local contacts. • Ethnic and linguistic holidays: are included in the category of memorial holidays, to be regulated by the Republican Council For Memorial Holidays: • Albanians: November 28. • Peace Day: June 12 (date when NATO troops liberated Kosovo in 1999). • Veterans: March 6. • Romas:April 8. • Turks: April 23. • Ashkalijs: February 15. • Gorans:September 28. • Serbs: January 27. • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Kosovo information and news: ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Kosovo maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Kosovo), and Wikipedia (includes Kosovo commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Kosovo, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Kosovo, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Kosovo. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Kosovo that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Kosovo were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

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 2009 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Kosovo, 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 Kosovo, before planning any trip to Kosovo. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.