Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol6/p16b/item104 |
Title | Reparation expenses of the roads outside the city put on Dutch auction, 27 July 1898 (Gregorian calendar) - 15 Tammûz 1314 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1898-07-27 |
Dates Start | 1898-07-27 |
Dates End | 1898-07-27 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The macadam going from Bâbülhalil to the municipal hospital, whose reparation has been decided to be undertaken by İlyas Abu Halim. 2,200 meter x a price of 20 piasters = 44,000 piasters The macadam going from the municipal restaurant to Birket-i Hücce, whose reparation has been decided to be undertaken by Hanna İlyas Zünnânîr (?). 1,000 meter x a price of 20 piasters = 20,000 piasters The macadam going from Jaffa to the Seyyidinâ Ukkâşe road, whose reparation and arrangement have been decided to be undertaken by Atâ el-Kâfî (?) = 1,710 piasters The road going from the Jaffa macadam to the Madrasah of Şenîler (?), whose reparation has been decided to be undertaken by Ataullah Süleyman Sekâlî (?). 240 meter x a price of 9.30 piasters = 2,340 piasters Total = 68,050 piasters The arrangement and reparation expenses of the roads outside the city have been put on Dutch auction. It has been decided that the work be undertaken by the above-written people at a rate of 68,050 piasters as respected current akçe. The 15th of Tammûz (1)314 (27th of July 1898). |
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 |