Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol3/p30b/item216 |
Title | Damages to be divided between farmers, 5 April 1899 (Gregorian calendar) - 24 Mârt 1315 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1899-04-05 |
Dates Start | 1899-04-05 |
Dates End | 1899-04-05 |
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 announced to the public that since much transgressions and damages from enmity between farmers has affected the orchards of olive, fig and grapevine in many areas of Jerusalem district, and almost none of the aggressors have been identified. And in accordance with the former request in this regard, the royal decree has been issued to extend the current "usûl al-qisamah"!! that includes burned straw, grass, mulberry or places of silkworms to the cutting down of olive and fig trees and grapevine. Therefore, if olive and fig trees or grapevine were cut down without identifying the aggressor, the value of the trees will be compensated in accordance with "usûl al-qisamah". In order for this to be known, these directions were published on the 24th of Mârt (1)315 (5th of April 1899). [No signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/damages-to-be-divided-between-farmers-5-april-1899-gregorian-calendar-24-mart-1315-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 |