Metadata: City Administration of Pirot
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Pirot
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив у Пироту (Istorijski arhiv u Pirotu)
- Postal address:
- Srpskih Vladara 130, 18 300 Pirot, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 10 320 952
- Web address:
- http://arhivpirot.rs/
- Email:
- iapirot@medianis.net
- Reference number:
- IAP-A.1.3
- Title:
- City Administration of Pirot
- Title (official language):
- Градско поглаварство Пирот
- Creator/accumulator:
- City Administration of Pirot
- Date(s):
- 1922/1941
- Language:
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 2.31 linear metres (6 administrative books and 21 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection provides data on the economic, social and cultural situation in the city in the period between the two world wars. Numerous records were preserved on the life and work of the Jews in Pirot. The minutes taken at the sessions of the Court Board, which dealt with the communal and other issues of the citizens of Pirot, revealed that Marko Sid, Nisim Avramović, Solomon Beraha, Rahamin Levi served as the members of that Court in the period from 1922 to 1930, and that Solomon Beraha and Marko Sid were elected members pursuant to the Jury Act.
The collection also includes several files related to Jewish population, namely: Moša Abravanel file from 1937 - (Report to the Government on the export of cheese; Moša Abravanel requested from the City Government the reimbursement of the deposit he placed with the Government; The City Administration decided to return the deposit to Moša Abravanel); The Jewish community in Pirot requested the property right over the Jewish cemetery near Sarlah - (The District Court in Pirot ruled that the City Administration in Pirot should recognise the right of ownership of the Jewish religious community in Pirot to the Jewish cemetery in the settlement called “Sarlah.” The City Administration in Pirot was to pay 200 dinars to the Jewish community in Pirot for lawsuit costs. At the session of the City Administration, held on 11 July 1940, it was decided that lawsuit costs should be covered from the City budget). The Tax Evidence Book for 1934-1935 includes data on the Jewish citizens obliged to pay taxes. The following data were entered into the Book for each person: name and surname, address, amount of the land tax, house tax, property tax, rent tax and social tax in dinars, amount of municipal tax, surtax debt, total debt, collected tax in total, overdue tax left, overcharged amount.
- Archival history:
- The records were transferred to the Archives in 1959 from the Historical Archives of Niš.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The City Administration of Pirot operated as the Court of the Municipality of Pirot after WWI. It was the direct authority in the Municipality, administered by the president, two serfs and a clerk, in the police, self-administrative and administrative, executive and judicial power. The Law on Municipalities of 1932 changed the name of the Court into the Municipality of Pirot, and a year later, in 1934, to the City Administration whose scope of authority covered all activities that directly dealt with the community, economics, cultural and social progress in the city. It ceased to operate when the Bulgarian authorities occupied Pirot in 1941.
- Access points: locations:
- Pirot
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Legal matters
- Taxation
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged thematically and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- A summary catalogue exists.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Predrag M Vidanović; Historical Archives of Pirot; 2021
