Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol17/p19a/item113 |
Title | Prices, 24 October 1917 (Gregorian calendar) - 24 Tishrîn Awwal 1333 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1917-10-24 |
Dates Start | 1917-10-24 |
Dates End | 1917-10-24 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The marginal note with reference to the copy of the Fourth Imperial Army Commandership’s telegram dated 27 July 1917; and the telegram, dated 7 September 1917, sent from the Kaymakamlık of Gaza to the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem; and the transacted letter, dated 16 May 1917 and numbered 26588 by the Range Inspectorship Each kilo of pekmez, 50 piasters / each kilo of dried grape, 18 piasters It has been considered appropriate that, in consideration of the current market value in town, each kilo of pekmez be priced at 50 piasters, and each kilo of dried grape at 18 piasters. It has been decided that the situation be thus notified in reply. The 24th of Tishrîn Awwal (1)333 (24th of October 1917). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/prices-24-october-1917-gregorian-calendar-24-tishrin-awwal-1333-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en |
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 |