Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol5/p50a/item329 |
Title | Public bid for tax-farming rights on state-owned land near Ghûr Al Sâfi, 12 April 1902 (Gregorian calendar) - 30 Mârt 1318 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1902-04-12 |
Dates Start | 1902-04-12 |
Dates End | 1902-04-12 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | We announce that the telegram dated on the 29th of Mârt (1)318, coming from Nablus Province that the rent of al ‘Afrâniyah farm, which is affiliated with Ghûr al Sâfî on state land, reached 39,000 piasters for a period of five years. The decision was withdrawn and a week has been allocated, except holidays, for public bidding. Anyone who wishes to enter the bid should contact the municipal department within a week, starting from the 29th of Mârt (1)318. In order for this to be known, the procedures were announced on the 30th of Mârt (1)318 (12th of April 1902). [No signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
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 |