Christmas Traditions in Great Britain, Wales and Northern Ireland often vary from those in Scotland whose strong Protestant religious roots led to greater celebrations in the New YearXmas Trees and other traditional decorations and ornaments decorate British homes. These usually start to go up on December 1st. They are all taken down by Twelfth Night, 6th January, as it is deemed to be bad luck to show decorations after this datePopular festive plants include holly, ivy, mistletoe, the Christmas amaryllis and poinsettias.The season starts in Great Britain with elaborate lighting being switched on in famous shopping areas such as Oxford Street in LondonIn the last few years many British homes have also adopted the American custom of decorating the outside of their houses with various decorations and lightsSanta Claus is commonly known as Father Christmas in Great Britain and delivers the presents and fills the stockings on Christmas EveChristmas Day is a Bank holiday when very few people work and when people all get together for a great celebratory meal and open giftsMany British people go to church in the morning and after the main meal families relax by playing games or simply watching the TV26th December which is known as Boxing Day in Great Britain and is traditionally a day for many sporting events especially British football (soccer) matches and horse racing events
Naming "Kazakhstan" used as the official name of the country from December 10, 1991, when the name of the state, "the Kazakh Soviet socialist Republic" was changed to "Republic of Kazakhstan".[15]The periodization of history the territory of modern Kazakhstan:The prehistoric era covers the time from the appearance of man on the territory of Kazakhstan until the beginning of the emergence of a state on the territory of Kazakhstan (VII—VIII centuries BC).Ancient period — the emergence of the first Turkic and Iranian States on the territory of Kazakhstan (Saki, Uyuni, kanly, Huns), their prosperity, crisis and the fall (from the VIII century BC to V ad).Medieval history of Kazakhstan (V century BC until the 30-ies of the XVIII century). Conventionally, scholars have identified early and late middle ages. The era of the Turkic Imperial heyday of the Turkic Khanate, the Golden Horde and the power of Genghis Khan, the Qarakhanid Empire and Tamerlane. The formation of the Kazakh khanate. The flourishing period of the enlightenment scientists, astronomers, mathematicians, poets of the Turkic empires such as Ulugh beg, al-Kashi, Saifi-sheds, Kutub, Farabi, balasaguni and other.New story: from the seventeenth century until the end of February 1917 — the entry into Russia, the Siberian Khanate (the end of XVI century), the Nogai Horde (XVII century), the Kazakh khanate (XIX century).The first stage of the recent history: since the fall of the monarchy in the Russian Empire, the October revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union (December 1991).The second stage of modern history: from the day of Declaration of independence 16 of December 1991 to the present and is characterized by the formation and development of Kazakhstan as a sovereign, democratic, legal state.
