Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol3/p28b/item204 |
Title | Interruption of a room construction, 30 March 1899 (Gregorian calendar) - 18 Mârt 1315 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1899-03-30 |
Dates Start | 1899-03-30 |
Dates End | 1899-03-30 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | On the correspondence, dated 28 March 1899, by the Greek Patriarch regarding the room in the Tûr mountain Up to now, the municipal council have not intervened in the buildings constructed in villages. Nevertheless, it was stated in the letter sent by the Office of Main Register of Revenues on 18 May 1891 that a license be given to these buildings by the municipal offices on the condition that the certificates to be given by the land owners for the buildings to be constructed in kazas, villages, and other places besides these be approved by the offices of main register of revenues and title deed. This matter was also mentioned in the letter, dated 23 May 1898 and numbered 66, sent from the Office of Main Register of Revenues with reference to this letter and the construction of the said room was requested to be stopped. In accordance with the 94. article of the regulation mentioned in this letter, since there is no obstacle against the intervention by the municipality into the village buildings, it is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council in order to take necessary action in respect thereof. The 18th of Mârt (1)315 (30th of March 1899). [7 signatures] |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/interruption-of-a-room-construction-30-march-1899-gregorian-calendar-18-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 |