This article is about the modern Assyrian calendar. See Old Assyrian calendar for the ancient calendar.

The Assyrian calendar is a lunar

Moon

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-based calendar that begins in the year 4750 BC, inspired by an estimate of the date of the first temple at Ashur

Ashur

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, notably based on a series of articles published in the Assyrian magazine Gilgamesh, edited by the brothers Addi and Jean Alkhas and Nimrod Simono. The year begins

Assyrian new year

Assyrian new year may refer to* Akitu, the Assyrian-Babylonian new year festival.* Assyrian New Year, an Assyrian nationalist festival reintroduced in the 1950s...

 with the first sight of Spring

Spring (season)

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. The Assyrian new year

Assyrian new year

Assyrian new year may refer to* Akitu, the Assyrian-Babylonian new year festival.* Assyrian New Year, an Assyrian nationalist festival reintroduced in the 1950s...

 is still celebrated every year with festivals and gatherings. As of April 1, 2011, it is the Assyrian year of 6761.

Months

Assyrian calendar

Season	Month	Transliteration	Info	Blessed by	Days	Gregorian calendar
Spring		Nisan-Nison	Month of Happiness	Enlil Enlil Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.-Early life:Members...	31	March/April
		Yaar-Iyar	Month of Love	Khaya	31	April/May
		Khzeeran-Hzirin	Month of Building	Sin Sin (mythology) Sin or Nanna was the god of the moon in Mesopotamian mythology. Nanna is a Sumerian deity, the son of Enlil and Ninlil, and became identified with Semitic Sin. The two chief seats of Nanna's/Sin's worship were Ur in the south of Mesopotamia and Harran in the north.- Name :The original meaning of...	31	May/June
Summer		Tammuz-Tamuz	Month of Harvesting	Tammuz	31	June/July
		Tdabbakh (Ab)-Tibbax (Ob)	Month of Ripening of Fruits	Shamash Shamash Shamash was a native Mesopotamian deity and the sun god in the Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian pantheons. Shamash was the god of justice in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu...	31	July/August
		Elool-Ilul	Month of sprinkling of seeds	Ishtar Ishtar Ishtar is the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex. She is the counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate north-west Semitic goddess Astarte.-Characteristics:...	30	August/September
Autumn		Tishrin I	Month of giving	Anu Anu In Sumerian mythology, Anu was a sky-god, the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, Consort of Antu, spirits and demons, and dwelt in the highest heavenly regions. It was believed that he had the power to judge those who had committed crimes, and that he had created the stars as...	30	September/October
		Tishrin II	Month of awakening of buried seeds	Marduk Marduk Marduk was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi , started to...	30	October/November
		Kanoon I (Chisleu)	Month of conceiving	Nergal Nergal The name Nergal, Nirgal, or Nirgali refers to a deity in Babylon with the main seat of his cult at Cuthah represented by the mound of Tell-Ibrahim. Nergal is mentioned in the Hebrew bible as the deity of the city of Cuth : "And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal"...	30	November/December
Winter		Kanoon II (Tebet)	Month of resting	Nasho	30	December/January
		Shwat (Sebat)-Ishwit	Month of flooding	Raman	30	January/February
		Adaar - Odar	Month of evil spirits	Rokhaty	29	February/March

The intercalary month, added when the new moon following Adaar predates vernal equinox, is called Ve-Adad.