جغرافياي قفقازيه، آلماناك بازمانده از عصر ناصري

The geography of Caucasus, the surviving almanac of Naseri era

جغرافياي قفقازيه نسخة خطي منحصربه‌فردي است كه ماردروس داودخانوف (Martiros Daudkhanov)، معلم دارالفنون و مترجم دارالطباعة دولتي، آن را به‌فرمان ناصرالدين‌شاه از روسي به فارسي ترجمه كرد. كتاب جغرافياي قفقازيه سال‌نامۀ (آلماناك Almanack) مفصل قفقاز است كه در سه فصل و يك مقدمه تدوين شده و داراي مطالب متنوعي دربارة جغرافياي طبيعي و انساني شهرهاي قفقاز، جمعيت، اوضاع مذهبي، و سازمان تعليم‌وتربيت، و وضع راه است. ازاين‌رو، منبع مهم و درخور توجهي براي آشنايي با تاريخ و جغرافياي قفقاز به‌شمار مي‌رود.

The geography of Caucasus is the name of an exclusive manuscript that Martiros Daudkhanov, the Russian language teacher of Dar-ol-fonun and the translator of Governmental publications, finished its translation from Russian to Persian in Jumada Al-Awwal 1287 AH. This manuscript includes not only a detailed yearbook of Caucasus, but also a description of social conditions of Tbilisi, the causes of Ague in that region and also a description of natural geography of Tbilisi and some other cities and villages in Caucasus in the second half of the nineteenth century. The contents of this manuscript consists of three chapters and a prologue containing intriguing and different subjects written about the natural and human geography, population, religious conditions, the ministry of education, road conditions and etc of Caucasus. Thus it is an important source of understanding the history and geography of Caucasus.