An aristocratic interregnum in eastern Georgia (Kartli) after the Sasanians abolished the Chosroid monarchy in 580, ruled by a succession of presiding princes contested by Persia, Byzantium, the Khazars, and the Arabs, until the Bagrationi restored the kingship in 888.
Ended in 888 when Adarnase IV of the Bagrationi dynasty restored the Georgian royal title, beginning the process of unification that produced the Kingdom of Georgia in 1008.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Principality of Iberia — the shape you scrub through changes in 580 · 640.
Full narrative sweep of Georgian history that covers the post-Chosroid presiding-princes interregnum and the Bagrationi restoration in context.