Liberation Day

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Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day. Liberation marks the date of either a revolution, as in Cuba, the fall of a dictatorship, as in Portugal, or the end of an occupation by another state, as in the Netherlands, thereby differing from original independence day or creation of statehood.

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CountryDateYearEventName of holiday
Flag of the Taliban.svg  Afghanistan February 151989 Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan Liberation Day
Flag of Albania.svg  Albania November 291944 Liberation from Nazi Germany Dita e Çlirimit or Liberation Day
Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh December 161971 Liberation from Pakistan Bijoy Dibosh in Bangladesh and Vijay Diwas in India's West Bengal, or Victory Day
Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus July 31944 Liberation from Nazi Germany Republic Day or Independence Day
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria March 3 [1] 1878 Creation of the Principality of Bulgaria Liberation Day
Flag of Cambodia.svg  Cambodia January 71979 Liberation from the Khmer Rouge Victory Day
Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg  Congo, Democratic Republic of the May 171997Takeover of Kinshasa by Laurent-Désiré Kabila following the First Congo War [2] Liberation Day
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba January 11959 Cuban Revolution under the leadership of Fidel Castro Triunfo de la Revolución or Triumph of the Revolution
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic May 81945 Liberation from Nazi Germany Den osvobození (Liberation Day)
Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia May 51941 Liberation from Italy Arbegnoch Qen or Patriots' Day
Flag of the Falkland Islands.svg  Falkland Islands June 141982 Liberation from Argentina Liberation Day
Flag of France.svg  France August 251944 Liberation from Nazi Germany and the end of the Vichy Regime
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece October 121944 Liberation from Nazi Germany
Flag of Guam.svg  Guam July 211944 Liberation from Japan [3] [4] [5] Liberation Day
Flag of Guernsey.svg  Guernsey (Channel Islands)May 91945 Liberation from Nazi Germany [6] Liberation Day
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary April 41945 Siege of Budapest, celebrated between 1950 and 1989 (no longer a holiday as of 1990) Liberation Day
Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg  Hong Kong Last Monday in August1945 Liberation from Japan, [7] celebrated between 1945 and 1996 (no longer a holiday as of 1997) Liberation Day (V-J Day 30 August)
Flag of India.svg  India December 19 (Goa only)1961 Liberation of Goa from Portugal Goa Liberation Day
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 28 Iyar 1967 Reuinfication of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy April 251945 Liberation from Nazi Germany and the end of the collaborationist Fascist regime of the Italian Social Republic Festa della Liberazione
Flag of Jersey.svg  Jersey (Channel Islands)May 91945 Liberation from Nazi Germany [8] Liberation Day
Flag of North Korea.svg  Korea, North / Flag of South Korea.svg  Korea, South August 151945 Liberation from Japan Gwangbokjeol
Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait February 261991 Liberation from Iraq [9]
Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon May 252000 Withdrawal of the Israeli Forces from Lebanon Liberation Day
Flag of Libya.svg  Libya October 232011 Muammar Gaddafi killed, ending the 2011 Libyan civil war
Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia October 111941 Uprising Day in North Macedonia, the beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia
Flag of Mali.svg  Mali November 191968End of Modibo Keïta's regime
Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova August 241944Liberation from Nazi Germany Liberation Day (Moldova)
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands May 51945 Liberation from Nazi Germany Bevrijdingsdag or Liberation Day
Flag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua July 191979 Nicaraguan Revolution
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg  Northern Mariana Islands July 41945 Liberation from Japan
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway May 81945 Liberation from Nazi Germany
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland November 111918Gained independence from German empire, Russian empire, Austria-Hungary in the end of World War I after 123 years of occupation.Dzień Niepodległości (Independence Day)
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal April 251974Fall of the Estado Novo (New State) fascist regime: known locally as the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos) Freedom Day
Flag of Rwanda.svg  Rwanda July 41994Victory of the RPF, ending the Rwandan genocide Liberation Day
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia May 81945 Liberation from Nazi Germany Deň víťazstva nad fašizmom
Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.svg  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands April 251982 Liberation from Argentina
Flag of Togo (3-2).svg  Togo January 131967Military coup under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema [10] Jour de la Libération
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey August 301922End of the Turkish War of Independence Zafer Bayramı (Victory Day)
Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda January 26 [11] 1986End of Tito Okello's regime and the capture of power by the Museveni regime
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine October 281944 Liberation from Nazi Germany completed as Red Army captures Chop Liberation Day (Ukraine)
Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam April 301975"Day of liberating the South for national reunification" Reunification Day
Liberation Memorial in Stanley, Falkland Islands. 1982 Liberation Memorial in Stanley (5612271774).jpg
Liberation Memorial in Stanley, Falkland Islands.

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