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Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

Issue regarding the narrowness of the Jaffa Gate point, 4 December 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 21 Tishrîn thânî 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p44b/item329
Title Issue regarding the narrowness of the Jaffa Gate point, 4 December 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 21 Tishrîn thânî 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates 1910-12-04
Dates Start 1910-12-04
Dates End 1910-12-04
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Repository Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s) Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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Description The narrowness of the Bab-al-Halîl point, regarded as one of the busiest spots in the kaza of Jerusalem, a point reserved for the passage of the whole people that has gained more importance than all the neighborhoods of the kaza with the advances in development, is obvious. Therefore, it creates trouble and difficulty for people passing through it. In order to facilitate the passage through there, it has been considered appropriate that the ditch, located inside and outside the town, one half of which, in accordance with the recent decrees, belongs to the Treasury and the other half to the municipality, and which now remains in an idle condition, be filled with soil and integrated to the road. Besides, it has also been considered appropriate that necessary improvements and reparations be made in some parts of the old fortress, shaping it into a proper form in the eyes of everyone, and that a museum and a library be established there. It has been understood that the said construction would approximately require an expense of 5,000 lira. It is appropriate that the Sanjak General Council first negotiate the issue of the transfer of the said ditch to the municipality, as it desperately needs a regulation with regard to the direction of the road and the town in general; and that a permission is given for the required authority in this respect. The 21st of Tishrîn Thânî (1)326 (4th of December 1910).

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Language of material Ottoman Turkish

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Sources http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/issue-regarding-the-narrowness-of-the-jaffa-gate-point-4-december-1910-gregorian-calendar-21-tishrin-thani-1326-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en

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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)

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Repository Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s) Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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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.

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Conditions governing access Subject to the authorization of Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)

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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

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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

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