Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol13/p34a/item189 |
Title | Upon a Waqfs Accounting’s marginal note regarding the demolition by the municipality of two rooms, 15 December 1908 (Gregorian date) - 2 Kânûn Awwal 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1908-12-15 |
Dates Start | 1908-12-15 |
Dates End | 1908-12-15 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the Waqfs Accounting’s marginal note dated 7 December 1908 and numbered 179, regarding the demolition by the municipality of the two rooms, one of which is high and the other of which is low, stated by the inspection officials to have been illegally and unfairly constructed by the deputies of the Misabladah (?) Hospital, on the Blue Mosque located in the Jewish neighborhood As for taking due action in respect thereof as specified in the above-written marginal note by the Waqfs Accounting, a warning has been issued to the persons whose names are written in the inspection officials’ annotation and these persons have returned the warnings after writing annotations beneath them. Similarly, on the basis of the 21., 22., and 85. articles of the Constitution, the hereby presented complaint has been filed via the Notary by the Misabladah (?) Hospital’s deputies against the mayorship and the hereby presented petition has also been given. For examining the hereby presented documents and negotiating whether the said rooms in dispute can be demolished without any trial, it is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council. The 2nd of Kânûn Awwal (1)324 (15th of December 1908). |
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 |