Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
| Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol4/p13b/item96 |
| Title | Location of Akata el-Fasıla and the municipal hospital, 5 August 1895 (Gregorian calendar) - 24 Tammûz 1311 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
| Dates | 1895-08-05 |
| Dates Start | 1895-08-05 |
| Dates End | 1895-08-05 |
| Level of description | Item |
| Extend and medium | 1 item |
| Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
| Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
| Description | In the month of June 1311 (13 June – 12 July 1895), 250 meters of sewage, 1,000 meters of pavement, 230 meters of stairs, at the location of Akata el-Fasıla, within the town’s territory, and 600 meters of pavement and 200 meters of stairs, in front of the governor’s office, have been constructed. 25 patients have been admitted to the municipal hospital and their treatment is taken care of thanks to our Sultan. Likewise, 519 patients have been examined by the municipality doctor and 220 children from villages have been vaccinated by an officer appointed particularly for this matter. The 24th of Tammûz (1)311 (5th of August 1895). [No signatures] |
| 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 |