Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol12/p3a/item17 |
Title | Widening of road and compensation of owners of neighboring houses, 7 January 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 25 Kânûn Awwal 1322 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1907-01-07 |
Dates Start | 1907-01-07 |
Dates End | 1907-01-07 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The street outside of Bab Al Sâhira leading from the garden of the family of the late Wirtha and Wahba Effendi Al Budîrî until the land of the Muristân is not wide enough. In order to make a road of it, it is imperative to increase its width to five meters. The map given by the municipal engineer has revealed that the space needed for the widening cannot be taken from all of the land owners along the mentioned street. According to the article of the building code, it has been decided to take the necessary (space) from any of the plots of land there. So whoever does not give up anything will pay half of the space taken from the land close to him, according to a price per square ell (dhrâ‘) of three francs for the land of the late Wirtha and Wahba Effendi. For the land of Sidqî Effendi Al Husaynî two francs and a half and for the other land two francs. A contract was drawn up with the house and property owners on the two sides of the street. When this street is finished according to the description, it will be repaired and turned into a shûr (?) at the expense of the municipality’s treasury. In order for this to be approved, this decision was taken on the 25th of Kânûn Awwal (1)322 (7th of January 1907). |
Language of material | Arabic |
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 |