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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting how many (mostly Slavic) countries adopted the Roman calendar but decided to use their own names. I would assume that in the earlier Slavic calendars the months wouldn't begin on the same days, even if they had months as such.

[–] BurnedOliveTree@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

With Polish for example, we have 2 month that are currently named after Roman calendar, even thought all 12 of our months used to have their own names

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 2 weeks ago

Poland is the Iceland of calendar units