Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol8/p3b/item20 |
Title | Arrangement and decoration of roads, 24 October 1898 (Gregorian calendar) - 12 Tishrîn Awwal 1314 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1898-10-24 |
Dates Start | 1898-10-24 |
Dates End | 1898-10-24 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Our council member Hüseyinf Effendi has been appointed for the arrangement and decoration work necessary for removing the dirt, soil and debris on the road extending from the Hebron gate to the Municipal Hospital; and again, our council member Yusuf Effendi has been appointed for the work to be done on the roads extending from Hovace Paskal’s house to Damascus Gate and from Hüseyin Bey’s house to the French Hospital. As for the road extending from the companies and Hüseyin Bey’s house to Telul al-Masaniye (?), Beşvua (?) Effendi has been appointed; and as for those within the country, Abdullah Nemir Effendi, İs Katniye Effendi, Fransis Effendi, Nikola Effendi and Bagos Effendi have been appointed, with sergeants assigned to escort each of them. This situation is hereby presented for your information. The 12th of Tishrîn Awwal (1)314 (24th of October 1898). [1 signature] |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/arrangement-and-decoration-of-roads-24-october-1898-gregorian-calendar-12-tishrin-awwal-1314-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 |