Geografie culturală în operele lui Dimitrie Cantemir referitoare la expediţia în Caucaz
Cultural Geography in Dimitrie Cantemir’s Works on the expedition to the Caucasus

Summary/Abstract: Historians refer to In this study we aim to analyze the image of the Eastern Caucasus from the perspective of cultural geography, as it appears in a series of works connected to each other. Some of them include the diary notes recorded by Dimitrie Cantemir during the expedition to the Caucasus of Tsar Peter the Great (1723), first published by the Romanian Academy in 1883, as Collectanea Orientalia. These will be corroborated with a version of a part of these notes, processed after Cantemir’s death, by T. S. Bayer. His study was published in Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae, Tomus I. Ad annum 1726. Cantemir participated in the Caucasus expedition, in a peripheral area of strategic importance for the Russian Empire, as an expert in Islamic civilization and in various Oriental languages. His notes go beyond the limited scope of some geographical notes and provide unique data about the history and people of those areas. T. S. Bayer, a German professor at the recently established Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, resumes Cantemir’s information about the Caucasian fortifications in a scholarly material that contributes to the dissemination of the Prince’s research within the European scientific world.

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