Yennayer
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Yennayer is the first month of the Berber calendar. The first day of Yennayer corresponds to the first day of January in the Julian Calendar, which is shifted thirteen days compared to the Gregorian c
Three Berber (Amazigh) calendars, all of them refer to the Shoshenq era (Gregorian + 950).
Shoshenq I
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Hedjkheperre Setepenre Shoshenq I —also known as Shashank or Sheshonk or Sheshonq I—was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt.
Yennayer
…year. The Berber calendar was created in 1980 by Ammar Negadi, an Algerian scholar. He chose 943 BC (rounded off to 950), the year in which the Meshwesh Shoshenq I ascended to the throne of Egypt, as the first year of the Berber calendar. There is some debate about the traditional date of Yennayer, with some…
Shoshenq I (middle) gives offering to Amun (left), accompanied by his son Iuput (right), drawn by Ippolito Rosellini at the Bubastite Portal.
The Triumphal Relief of Shoshenq I near the Bubastite Portal at Karnak, depicting the god Amun-Re receiving a list of cities and villages conquered by the king in his Near Eastern military campaigns
The Bubastite Portal at Karnak, depicting Shoshenq I and his second son, the High Priest Iuput A
Canopic chest and lid of Shoshenq I at the Neues Museum, Berlin