Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol9/p22a/item142 |
Title | Installation of three street lamps in Harat al-Maghariba after mukhtar’s request and inspection, 6 June 1900 (Gregorian calendar) - 24 Mayîs 1316 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1900-06-06 |
Dates Start | 1900-06-06 |
Dates End | 1900-06-06 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | 1 at Bâb Al Burâq 1 at Bâb Dâr ‘Abdu 1 at (illegible) in the blind alley of Shaykh ‘Aîd (illegible) sanctuary The mukhtâr of the Maghrebi quarter (mahallat bâb al maghâriba) has been consulted and he has complained that several lanterns have to be hung up in the mentioned quarter. An inspection has taken place and it has been found that it is indeed urgent to put up three lantern, one at Bâb Al Burâq, the second one at Bâb Dâr ‘Abdu, and the third one in the blind alley of Shaykh ‘Aîd, starting on the first day of the month of Huzayrân (1)316. In order for the lighting (of the lanterns) by the contractor (for lighting ?) to start from the beginning of the mentioned month and in order to pay the lighting fee according to the fixed price agreed to by the contractor, his decision was taken on the 24th of Mayîs (1)316 (6th of June 1900). And the amount needed for hanging up (the lanterns) to be paid by the treasury of the municipality with the remainder of the lighting expenses. [4 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 |