Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p3a/item17 |
Title | Vote for the membership of the Sanjak Administrative Council, 19 March 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 6 Mârt 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-03-19 |
Dates Start | 1910-03-19 |
Dates End | 1910-03-19 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Mehmed Abdülvahab Effendi Al-Halidi, 9 votes (only 9 votes) / Feyzullah Effendi al-Alemi, 3 votes (only 3 votes) / Mahmud Carullah Effendi, 7 votes (only 7 votes) / Şükrü Effendi al-Karmi, 6 votes (only 6 votes) Sirufim Effendi Mitya (?), 7 votes (only 7 votes) / Lunsu (?) Effendi, 3 votes (3 votes). It is stated in the letter dated 7 March 1910 that the above-mentioned persons were shown as candidates for the membership of the Sanjak Administrative Council, and it is ordered there that, in accordance with procedures and rules, one-third of them be elected. Subsequently, a meeting was conducted by implementing election rules, with Muhammed Abdulvahab Halidi Effendi, Mahmud Carullah Effendi, Şükrü Karmi Effendi and Sirufim Mitya Effendi obtaining the majority of the votes and being elected as the members of the Sanjak Administrative Council. And our note regarding this matter is hereby presented. The 6th of Mârt (1)326 (19th of March 1910). |
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 |