One of the three breakaway kingdoms formed from the tripartite division of the Kingdom of Georgia (with Kakheti and Imereti), centered on eastern Georgia around Tbilisi; a vassal of successive Iranian dynasties (and briefly the Ottomans) through most of its existence, with intermittent independence especially after 1747.
Merged with the neighboring Kingdom of Kakheti in 1762 through dynastic succession under the Kakhetian branch of the Bagrationi dynasty, forming the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Kingdom of Kartli — the shape you scrub through changes in 1490 · 1503 · 1721.
Covers the tripartite division of Georgia and the Kartli/Kakheti kingdoms' vassalage under Iran and the Ottomans through to the 1762 dynastic merger.