Lunar calendar
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lunar-calendar-186-8297435
title:
Lunar calendar
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A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases, in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based on the solar year. The most widely observed purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar. A purely lunar calendar is distinguished from a lunisolar calendar, whose lunar months are brought into alignment with the solar year through some process of intercalation – such as by insertion of a leap month. The details of when months begin vary from calendar to
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Calendar based on the phases of the Moon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_calendar
date created:
2001-10-31T16:11:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T23:38:57Z
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