Nowruz

Nowruz (Aldegarian: نوروز‎‎ Nowruz; literally "new day"; Brmek: Nwrz) is the name of the Aldegarian New Year, which is celebrated worldwide by Aldegarians and some other ethno-linguistic groups (notably the Brmek people) as the beginning of the New Year.

It has been celebrated for thousands of years in Aldegar, across Seleya, in Barmenistan, across Majatra, and all over Terra. It marks the first day in the first month of the Aldegarian calendar.

Nowruz is the day of the vernal equinox, and marks the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The moment the sun crosses the celestial equator and equalizes night and day is calculated exactly every year, and families gather together to observe the rituals.

Etymology
The term Nowruz is an Aldegarian compound word, consisting of the words now and ruz. Now means "new." Ruz means "day."