Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol10/p4a/item20 |
Title | Upon a petition given on 9 May 1904 regarding road extend, 22 June 1904 (Gregorian calendar) - 9 Huzayrân 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1904-06-22 |
Dates Start | 1904-06-22 |
Dates End | 1904-06-22 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the petition given on 9 May 1904 by some of the resident of Türbe-i Maaşallah neighborhood The road referred to in this petition has been inspected and it has been understood from the hereby presented inspection register given by the municipal engineer that this road extends from the old coffeehouse belonging to the municipality to Bürke-i Maaşallah and from there to madrasa named Raytizbon (?), that it is 1,538 zirâ in length and that there is a need for 41,783 piasters in order to transform it into a macadam. It is understood from this petition that the road in question is indeed in a dilapidated situation, leading to problems for traffic in winter days; that, due to the fact that this location has taken the form of a neighborhood, the high number of people living here and the low amount of money reserved in the budget for road reparation, it will not be possible to repair current roads and more important macadams under these conditions. It is thus ratified that the cost necessary for the reparation of the said road be covered by the owners of the real estates around the road. Therefore, for taking due actions in respect thereof, and, when the time for reparation comes, initiation of the work by the municipality in accordance with the hereby presented inspection register and map, the said approximate amount of 40,000 piasters must be properly apportioned to the neighboring real estate owners. It is appropriate to relegate the matter to our council so as to appoint one of our council members for this task. The 9th of Huzayrân (1)320 (22nd of June 1904). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
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 |