The Nowruz festival is the Persian-language term for the Iranian New Year, also known as the Persian New Year. It begins on the spring equinox and marks the beginning of Farvardin, the first month of the Solar Hijri calendar.
It is celebrated in Iran and neighboring countries such as Afghanistan and Turkey and is also marked by the Kurds living in northern Iraq and the Kurdish areas in Syria. Nowruz has passed between peoples and cultures through the Silk Road and is considered an official holiday in Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, and Kyrgyzstan.
In some cultures, people usually mark this special festival by lighting fire and dancing around it. In Kurdistan, women wear colored dresses and spangled head scarves and young men wave flags of green, yellow and red, the historic colors of Kurdish people.
