Reminder: The Old New Year Festives Have Already Begun

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The so called New Year festives according to the Julian calendar have already begun. Also it is called Orthodox New Year. It is an informal traditional holiday, celebrated as the start of the New Year by the Julian calendar. It is celebrated in the countries that accepted the Old Style on Jan 14th. The same day is celebrated in India as the sun ends its southward journey and starts moving northward: Makar Sankranti. In Scotland, the Old New Year has traditionally been held on the 12th of January. The Berbers of North Africa (from Morocco to Libya) traditionally celebrate the New Year on the "Berber calendar", which is very close to the Julian calendar. Because of certain calendar errors, the "Berber New Year" is celebrated in some areas on the 12th, rather than 14th, of January. The Old New Year festives are kept steadily by Russia, Serbia (including Kosovo), Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (mostly in Republika Srpska). Their origin is Slavic. A great reference to this content is visible in the following wikipedia link applied here that one could visit. So we are able to read there about Old New Year celebration kept and spread around the world by its adherents.