Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol12/p12b/item75 |
Title | Upon a decision regarding the demolition of a wall about to collapse in the Magaribe neighborhood, 4 March 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 19 Shubât 1322 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1907-03-04 |
Dates Start | 1907-03-04 |
Dates End | 1907-03-04 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | In the letter given on 3 March 1907 by the municipal engineer, it was stated that a part of the wall of the land, which is located in the Magaribe neighborhood within the city and whose trustees are Halidizâde Faziletli Musa Şefik Effendi and Katipzâde Şeyh Zeki Effendi, is about to collapse, posing a threat and thus in need of demolition. Hence, in accordance with the 48. article of the Public Buildings Regulation in effect as regards this matter, the remaining part of the said wall must be demolished, after the arrangement of a mandate of a committee composed of the municipal engineer, muhtar of the neighborhood, and an official from the municipal police force, with demolition expenses be covered from the wreckage cost or collected from the owners. It is appropriate to relegate the matter to the municipal police force to take due action in respect thereof. The 19th of Shubât (1)322 (4th of March 1907). |
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 |