Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol11/p1a/item1 |
Title | Reply to a letter given by the Russian Consulate regarding the municipal sergeant Nikola Efendi, 7 November 1905 (Gregorian calendar) - 25 Tishrîn Awwal 1321 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1905-11-07 |
Dates Start | 1905-11-07 |
Dates End | 1905-11-07 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | This is a reply to the letter given on 17 October 1905 by the Russian Consulate via the Russian subject and lumberman named Saharof regarding the municipal sergeant Nikola Effendi This letter has been examined by our council and it has been understood from the municipal inspectorate’s report and the investigation about the matter that the claim that the municipal sergeant Nikola Effendi oppressed the Russian subject and the merchant named Saharof is unfounded, and that the merchant’s claim is just an aspersion he had cast to avoid the pecuniary penalty. As Saharof’s claim consisting of an abstract statement cannot thus be taken into consideration, it is obvious that the claim needs to be reasonable and proven. And as for the protrusions across the English Monsieur Nen’s house and in front of Monsieur’s storehouse in Bab-al-cedit, and the carriages left next to Muhriddin Effendi’s barns across the big gate of the Russian consulate; the said places cannot be compared with the location of the said merchant as they are at a corner and far away from the crowds. Hence, necessary warnings have been issued to municipal inspectors and sergeants to remove it from there. There is no difference between the treatment towards Ottoman State subjects and the treatment towards Russian state subjects and other peoples, as they must be all regarded equal. Thus, the consulate’s statements have as such been found unacceptable. The 25th of Tishrîn Awwal (1)321 (7th of November 1905). |
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 |