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'''Newroz''' or '''Nûroj'''<ref>Thomas Bois, ''Connaissance des Kurdes'', 164 pp., 1965. (see p.69)</ref> ({{lang-ku|نهورۆز/Newroz/Nûroj}}, also: '''Gulus''')<ref>Abdurrahman Sharafkandi ([[Hejar]]), ''Henbane Borîne (Kurdish-Kurdish-Persian Dictionary)'', Soroush Press, 1991, Tehran, p. 715</ref> ({{lang-ku|گوڵوس}}) refers to the celebration of the traditional [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] new year holiday of [[Newroz]] in [[Kurdish culture|Kurdish]] society. Newroz is celebrated throughout the countries of the [[Middle East]] and [[Central Asia]] such as in [[Iran]], [[Azerbaijan]], [[Afghanistan]] and [[Turkey]] by their Kurds. Newroz is also celebrated by some communities in [[Pakistan]]. In Kurdish legend, the holiday celebrates the deliverance of the [[Kurds]] from a tyrant, and it is seen as another way of demonstrating support for the Kurdish cause.<ref name="murphy">{{cite web | title = For Kurds, a day of bonfires, legends, and independence | first = Dan | last = Murphy | publisher = The Christian Science Monitor | url = http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0323/p07s02-woiq.html| date = 2004-03-24| accessdate = 2007-03-08}}</ref><ref name="religionjournal">{{cite journal | journal = Middle Eastern Studies | volume = 42 | issue = 2 | pages = pp. 285–302 | date = 2006-03 | first = Lerna K. | last = Yanik | title = ‘Nevruz’ or ‘Newroz’? Deconstructing the ‘Invention’ of a Contested Tradition in Contemporary Turkey | doi = 10.1080/00263200500417710}}</ref><ref name="thekurds">{{cite book | title = The Kurds: A Concise Handbook | first = Mehrdad R. | last = Izady | year = 1992 | publisher = Taylor francis | location = United Kingdom | isbn = 0844817279 | pages = 243–244}}</ref><ref name="Australia">{{cite book | title = The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins | first =James | last = Jupp | year = 2001 | isbn = 0521807891 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge}}</ref><ref name="Yildiz">{{cite book | title = The Kurds: Culture and Language Rights | first = Kerim | last = Yildiz | coauthors = Fryer, Georgina | publisher = Kurdish Human Rights Project | year = 2004 | isbn = 1900175746}}</ref><ref name="diaspora">{{cite book | year = 1999 | isbn = 0312220677 | title = Kurdish Diasporas: A Comparative Study of Kurdish Refugee Communities (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship) | first = Osten | last = Wahlbeck | publisher = Macmillan | location = Basingstoke}}</ref> The celebration is commonly [[Kurdish language|transliterated]] ''Newroz'' by the Kurds and coincides with the [[spring equinox]] which falls mainly on 21 March <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/yourlondon/unitedcolours/features/kurdish_newyear.shtml | title =Newroz - Kurdish New Year | publisher = BBC}}</ref> and the festival is held usually between the 18th and 24 March. The festival currently has an important place in the terms of Kurdish identity for the majority of Kurds, mostly in [[Turkey]] and [[Syria]].<ref name="murphy" /><ref name="religionjournal" /><ref name="thekurds" /><ref name="Yildiz" /> Though celebrations vary, people generally gather together to welcome the coming of spring; people wear coloured clothes and flags of green, yellow and red, the colours of the Kurdish people are waved.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |first= Douglas |last= Frantz |title= Diyarbakir Journal: Where Misery Abounds, the Kurds Make Merry|url= http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/diarbkrj.htm |work= The New York Times |date= 2001-03-23 |accessdate=2007-03-08}}</ref><ref name="providence">{{cite news |first= Gina |last= Macris |title= Kurds Ring in New Year|url= http://www.kurdistan.org/Current-Updates/ring.html |work= Providence Journal |date= 2002-03-25 |accessdate=2007-03-08}}</ref>
==Mythology==
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