Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p29a/item216 |
Title | Upon the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ telegram regarding the cereal stock, 7 August 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 25 Tammûz 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-08-07 |
Dates Start | 1910-08-07 |
Dates End | 1910-08-07 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ telegram, dated 15 July 1326, regarding the cereal stock The current cereal stock and the wheat produced in the kaza in this year add up to ninety thousand tıbbe; and estimating that, apart from the flour coming to the center of Jerusalem and to the people in the villages, 2 thousand tıbbe is needed per day, 720 thousand tıbbe shall be needed as of this day until the new crops. Hence, except the current amount and crops, 630 thousand tıbbe crop of wheat and barley and 26 thousand tıbbe shall be available. However, except this, there will be a need for 163 thousand tıbbe of barley as of this day until the new crops; and this is provided from Salt, Madaba and Kerak and other cereals are as available as necessary. Each tıbbe of wheat was sold at 30 piasters at this time of last year, but its price has rose to 35 piasters this year and the price of other cereals are at the rate of last year. All these have been revealed as a result of an investigation made with experienced experts. The 25th of Tammûz (1)326 (7th of August 1910). |
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 |