Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol12/p29a/item186 |
Title | Upon a letter regarding water transport, 10 June 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 28 Mayîs 1323 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1907-06-10 |
Dates Start | 1907-06-10 |
Dates End | 1907-06-10 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the letter, dated 28 May 1907 and numbered 89, sent by the Second Doctor of the Hamidiye Etfal Hospital and the Vice Chairman of the Mineral Waters Commission As stated in this letter, the Jaffa Mayor has been selected as the delegate for notifying when the said water is transferred to the Jaffa port; paying the approximate amount of 3,700 piasters, its total cost together with the ferryboat fee, to the Jaffa branch of the Ottoman Bank; taking the mineral waters and submitting them to the train for delivery to Jerusalem. As regards the delivery of the said 1,500 big bottles, it is appropriate to report it in reply. The 28th of Mayîs (1)323 (10th of June 1907). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/upon-a-letter-regarding-water-transport-10-june-1907-gregorian-calendar-28-mayis-1323-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 |