Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol9/p26b/item171 |
Title | Announcement about festivities and annulations of debts predating 1299, 1 September 1900 (Gregorian calendar) - 19 Agustos 1316 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1900-09-01 |
Dates Start | 1900-09-01 |
Dates End | 1900-09-01 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | We announce to all the people that a telegraph dated on the 17th of Agustos has been received from the imperial Ministry of the Interior stating that a decree (irâda) from the Sultan has been issued on the occasion of the 4th century of the enthronement of our Sir, the great ruler of the believers, may God protect him on the path of the great califat (al khilâfâ al ‘uthma). In order to celebrate this happy day and ensure that beautiful memories remain among his self-sacrificing subjects who are loyal and eager to take care of him, the decree was issued based on a decision of the council appointed for this issue that all remaining miri tax arrears until the end of 1299 are pardoned, which according to the accounting of the imperial treasury exceed 11 371 000 liras and more. Those who are indebted with the treasury and whose debts date from before the end of the mentioned year can also be counted, and if any debts remain, they will be pardoned. The supreme pardon extends to all the people of Istanbul whose debts date from before the end of the mentioned year and concern the verko taxes of their homes and land in Istanbul. In response to the charitable wish of our Lord, the great ruler of the believers, these directions were published on the 19th of Agustos (1)316 (1st of September 1900). |
Language of material | Arabic |
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 |