Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol17/p6a/item29 |
Title | Land seizure, 22 April 1917 (Gregorian calendar) - 22 Nîsân 1333 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1917-04-22 |
Dates Start | 1917-04-22 |
Dates End | 1917-04-22 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | It has been decided that the approximately 10 dunam of land, two sides of which are surrounded by city walls, a side of which by the barrack, and a side of which by the stores belonging to the Armenian Monastery and the road, and understood to be belonging to the Treasury, be confiscated on behalf of the country in order to lay out a country garden intensely needed by the country with regard to development and health. With the operation of confiscation to be dealt with later, it has been considered appropriate that the municipal engineer and experts Reşid Kemal Efendi and İsâ Al Tûri Efendi be assigned for the prior task of drawing up a map showing the dimensions of the land and determining its price. It has been decided that the situation be notified to them. The 22nd of Nîsân (1)333 (22nd of April 1917). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/land-seizure-22-april-1917-gregorian-calendar-22-nisan-1333-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 |