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Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

Seizure, 28 April 1917 (Gregorian calendar) - 28 Nîsân 1333 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol17/p8a/item40
Title Seizure, 28 April 1917 (Gregorian calendar) - 28 Nîsân 1333 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates 1917-04-28
Dates Start 1917-04-28
Dates End 1917-04-28
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Repository Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s) Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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Description In the decree dated 16 April 1917 and numbered 651/952, given to the office of mutasarrifate by the Fourth Imperial Army Commander and the Naval Minister Ahmed Cemâl Pasha, it is stated that the Moskofiyye buildings seized on behalf of the state in accordance with the Council of Ministers’ decision must be confiscated on behalf of the Ministry of War. In accordance with the decision, dated 23 April 1917 and numbered 193, issued by the Sanjak Administrative Council following this decree, leaving aside for a moment the procedures necessary for confiscating the Moskofiyye buildings for public benefit on behalf of the Ministry of War, the real properties in question, as written in the note given by the land registry office as required by the 2. article of the Real Estate Confiscation Law, are the following: a garden known by the name of the New Moskofiye, bounded by the road at the qibla, east and north side, and by the house of Yusuf İsrail, and a house including low and high buildings within itself; a cistern together with a house and its garden known by the name of the New Moskofiye, bounded by the house of Sheikh Aşîrî (?) at the qibla side, by the house of Waqf of Sektâç (?) and the road at the east side, by the house of Kirikoryan al-Masur (?) at the west side, and by the road at the north side, and a land property, bounded (…) by Ebî Telûl al-Mesâbin (?) reaching up to the road from the east, by the Jafa road from the west, the Jafa route from the north (…) the Moskofiye house totally adjacent (?) to the road… to the road opened up from the north (…) al-Moskofiye, erstwhile by Berkim and now by al-Lord (?) at qibla side (…) and a guesthouse housing two churches and three guesthouses, a hospital divided into two departments and a garden, two houses, the buildings known as the Great Moskofiye within a gate containing other necessary things and the gardens located within it. With regard to their measures, a map has been drawn up, and it has been considered appropriate to assign the Deputy Municipal Engineer Keyni (?) Efendi, experts Reşid Kemal Efendi and İsa al-Turse (?) Efendi for the task of determining their value. And it has been decided that the situation be immediately notified to them. (Could not be read out) The 28th of Nîsân (1)333 (28th of April 1917).

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Language of material Ottoman Turkish

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Sources http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/seizure-28-april-1917-gregorian-calendar-28-nisan-1333-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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