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The bank holidays in Greece are no holiday at all

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The history behind the familiar concept of the European “bank holiday” dates back to 1871, when the Bank Holidays Act was passed in the United Kingdom. It established four days each year when banks would be closed. Typically those days fell on major religious holidays. By the end of the nineteenth century, bank holidays had become a familiar part of life in the UK and Commonwealth countries - they were also considered unofficial national holidays in Ireland and then the custom spread to continental Europe in the twentieth century.

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