Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol13/p32a/item173 |
Title | Upon a decision regarding the regular carrying out of proceedings in every part of the Ottoman country, 7 December 1908 (Gregorian date) - 24 Tishrîn Thânî 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1908-12-07 |
Dates Start | 1908-12-07 |
Dates End | 1908-12-07 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the Sanjak Administrative Council’s decision dated 7 November 1908 and numbered 1151, taken behind the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ letter dated 22 October and numbered 147, regarding the regular carrying out of proceedings in every part of the Ottoman country, taking precautions for procuring the needs of the municipality and pre-empting complaints, and the notification of these precautions As stated in the above-written decision by the Sanjak Administrative Council, relevant merchants have been summoned to our council for a negotiation and it has been understood that if the taxes written in the hereby presented bill are assigned to the municipality, they would be appropriate and not lead to any unjust treatment for the people. For taking due action in respect thereof, it is hereby presented together with its relevant documents. The 24th of Tishrîn Thânî (1)324 (7th of December 1908). |
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 |