Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol10/p5a/item25 |
Title | Decision to improve road in Jewish quarter, 27 June 1904 (Gregorian calendar) - 14 Huzayrân 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1904-06-27 |
Dates Start | 1904-06-27 |
Dates End | 1904-06-27 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The road in the beginning of the Jewish quarter (mahallat al mûsawîyya) which leads to the Gate of our prophet Dâwûd (peace upon him) does not have sewage drains, sidewalks or street paving. Therefore any passage there is very difficult on rainy days. The big amount of water damages the buildings in that area. Based on the complaints voiced by most of the inhabitants, it is necessary to inspect this road. The inspection conducted by the first engineer of the municipality has led us to understand that 60 meters of sewage canals, 80 meters of street paving and 537 meter of sidewalk need to be constructed. For this about 14 124 piasters are needed. Considering the lack of financial aid, the municipality will pay the totality of the mentioned amount from the council’s treasury. In order for this amount to be distributed and levied, this decision was taken on the 14th of Huzayrân (1)320 (27th of June 1904). [6 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/decision-to-improve-road-in-jewish-quarter-27-june-1904-gregorian-calendar-14-huzayran-1320-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 |