Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
| Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol3/p1a/item2 |
| Title | Decision to repair street leading from Dar Al Siryan to Austrian Embassy, 20 November 1894 (Gregorian calendar) - 8 Tishrîn Thânî 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
| Dates | 1894-11-20 |
| Dates Start | 1894-11-20 |
| Dates End | 1894-11-20 |
| Level of description | Item |
| Extend and medium | 1 item |
| Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
| Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
| Description | The road leading from the Syriac Convent (Dâr al-Siryân) to the glorious Austrian Consulate (dâr qunsûlâtû) is ruined, [full of] mud that piles up because of rains, and an amount [of money] is [already] assigned in the budget. Accordingly, the council has decided to improve and repair the [above-] mentioned road with the knowledge of one of us, the respectable al-Hâj Hasan Effendi, Shlomo Effendi and [municipal] engineer ‘Ibrâhîm Effendi, and to buy four hundred cube meters of pebbles [for the] price of two thousand that were decided in favor of the contractor of the (hasibkhânah) road, and to dig tunnels and level [the road] honestly and as it should be done. In order for this to be approved, this decision was taken on the 8th of Tishrîn Thânî (1)310 (20th of November 1894). [3 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 |