Appendix I

(a) The Lunar Islamic Year

(b) The Civil Year In Iraq

(c) The Iranian Solar Year

The Iranian solar year begins on the day the sun enters Aries (about 21 March) and is divided into 12 months, each of 31 or 30 days except the last which has 28, or in leap years 29. Several Kurdish publicists have endeavoured to introduce Kurdish names for the months; but there has been no uniformity and about 40 different names have been used, applied sometimes to the months of the Iranian calendar, sometimes, less appropriately, to the months of the Gregorian calendar, and in some cases to different months of the same calendar. The following table shows in column 2 the 12 names which are recommended, and in column 3 the corresponding names used on the Persian side of the boundary.