The coptic calendar counts 13 months, 12 of 30 days and one insert month, of 5 or 6 days, at the end of the year.

The year begins on the 11th of september of the gregorian calendar (the 12th for the leap years), the year is put back 284 years in relation to the Gregorian calendar.

The name of the months are : Thuout, Paopi, Athor, Khoiak, Tobi, Mekhir, Fameno, Farmou, Pakhon, Paony, Epep, Mesori et Nasie.


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