Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
| Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol4/p34b/item233 |
| Title | Decision to widen road, 12 February 1896 (Gregorian calendar) - 31 Kanûn Awwal 1311 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
| Dates | 1896-02-12 |
| Dates Start | 1896-02-12 |
| Dates End | 1896-02-12 |
| Level of description | Item |
| Extend and medium | 1 item |
| Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
| Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
| Description | It has become evident from the inspection of the road leading to the former slaughterhouse, which will be transformed into the gas station (ghâzkhânah), that it [the road] is not usable by cattle. Accordingly, the needed expenses for leveling [the road] have been estimated and were found to be ten French Liras approximately. In order for this to be done, one of us has been nominated, Mûsâ Effendi Yûnis and [the municipal engineer] Ibrâhîm Effendi. And in order to spend this [amount] from the municipality treasury, this decision was taken. Since the above-mentioned place is still [affected] by water drip, it has been decided [by the council] to do what is needed to stop it with the knowledge of the aforementioned persons and on the account of the contractor Mitrî al-Musarasa'. This decision was taken on the 31st of Kânûn Awwal (1)311 (12th of February 1896). [4 signatures] |
| Language of material | Arabic |
| Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/decision-to-widen-road-12-february-1896-gregorian-calendar-31-kanun-awwal-1311-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 |