Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol17/p9b/item51 |
Title | Money collection for the cleaning and lightening of the city walls, 5 May 1917 (Gregorian calendar) - 5 Mayîs 1333 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1917-05-05 |
Dates Start | 1917-05-05 |
Dates End | 1917-05-05 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | It has been agreed upon that the allowance of cleaning and lighting within the city walls be arranged to the account of 1917 and recorded on a register, and that, with an eye to later receive an approval by the council, this register be drawn up by the council members Hacı Ali Effendi, Arif Effendi and Emin Effendi. As regards collecting the said money, it has been decided that the collector Yusuf Kal’ai Effendi be appointed and a fifteen percent remuneration be given to him as was the case before. The 5th of Mâyîs (1)333 (5th of May 1917). |
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 |