Lunar calendar
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A lunar calendar is a calendar based upon the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases (synodic months), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based only directly upon the solar year. The most commonly used calendar, the Gregorian calendar, is a solar calendar system that originally evolved out of a lunar calendar system. A purely lunar calendar is also distinguished from a lunisolar calendar, whose lunar months are brought into alignment with the solar year through some process of intercalation. The details of when months begin varies from calendar to calendar, with some using new, full, or crescent moons and others employing detailed calculations.
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List of lunar calendars
- Gezer Calendar
- Haida
- Islamic calendar
- Nepal Sambat
- Javanese calendar
- Assyrian calendar
- Yoruba calendar
- Igbo calendar
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See also
- Babylonian calendar
- Celtic calendar
- Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Mongolian calendars
- Egyptian calendar
- Epact
- Hindu calendar
- Iranian and Hebrew calendars
- Islamic calendar
- Lunar phase
- Mayan calendar
- Paschal Full Moon
- Roman calendar
- Thai lunar calendar
- Tibetan calendar
- Ancient Macedonian calendar
- Ancient Greek calendars
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