Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p61b/item443 |
Title | Land confiscated in Silwan, 27 February 1911 (Gregorian calendar) - 14 Shubât 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1911-02-27 |
Dates Start | 1911-02-27 |
Dates End | 1911-02-27 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | We announce that according to the memorandum dated on the 18th of Kânûn Thânî (1)326, number 439, which was presented by the district administrative council to the municipality’s presidency, that the land located in Silwân village, and which belongs to the inheritors of ‘Abdul-Wadûd Effendi, Shaykh ‘Abdul-Ghanî Effendi al-Imâm, will be confiscated. And Hâj Salih al-Ghûl and his brothers will be confiscated. This land is next to Hamâda and partners land from the south, a road from the east, the land of Hâj Sâlih and partners from the north and a land from the west. The land will be confiscated according to articles six and seven of the expropriation law. After forming the needed departments and through inspections, each arms length of the land has been set at 2.5 Franks. According to article eight of the same law the decision has been announced and hung up for eight days starting from the date that follows, to give owners of this land the chance to object to the municipal department. In order for this to be known, these direction were published on the 14th of Shubât (1)326 (27th of February 1911). [No signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/land-confiscated-in-silwan-27-february-1911-gregorian-calendar-14-shubat-1326-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en |
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters |
Title | Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period |
Covering dates | 1892-01-01-1917-12-31 |
Dates Start | 1892-01-01 |
Dates End | 1917-12-31 |
Level of description | Fonds |
Extend and medium | Global extent: 18 volumes, 4192 items (more than 1200 pages, more than 3420 municipal decisions, for a minimum amount of 16568 lines of handwritten text) |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | This inventory includes the transcription (into Arabic and Turkish) and translation into English of the 18 volumes of reports (55% in Ottoman Turkish, 45% in Arabic) from the Ottoman municipality of Jerusalem between 1892 and 1917. |
Accruals | The collection is closed. |
System of arrangement | Chronological. |
Conditions governing access | Subject to the authorization of Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Publication notes | Yasemin Avci, Vincent Lemire and Falestin Naili "Publishing Jerusalem’s Ottoman Municipal Archives (1892-1917): A Turning Point for the City’s Historiography," Jerusalem Quarterly, no. 60 (2015), 110-119. http://www.palestine-studies.org/jq/fulltext/187215 Falestin Naili, "La dé-municipalisation de la gouvernance urbaine et de l’espace politique post-ottoman : le cas de Jérusalem", URL: https://ifpo.hypotheses.org/7428 |
Related descriptions | Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate |
Rules or conventions | International standard for archival description, General, etc. |
Date of the catalogue | Catalogue prepared during 2014-2018. |
Archivist's notes | Detailed inventory of the Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period (1892-1917), held by Jerusalem City Archive, made by Yasemin Avci, Hanna Borne, Abdul-Hameed Al-Kayyali, Vincent Lemire, Falestin Naili et Erkal Ünal, 2014-2018. |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/registers-of-jerusalem-municipality-council-during-the-ottoman-period |