State · 888 – 1008

Kingdom of the Iberians

A state of 888 – 1008 — 120 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Principality of Iberia. It was replaced by Kingdom of Georgia and followed by Georgia. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 6 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 120 years; 888 – 1008
Rulers: 6; the king
Most ground: 111,100 km²; in 889
Within it: 2; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Kingdom of the Iberians in 889, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kingdom of the Iberians in 889, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 111,100 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Kingdom of the Iberians in 889, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Kingdom of the Iberians in 1000, last mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Principality of Iberia · replaces · 588 – 888

After it

Kingdom of Georgia · replaced by · 1008 – 1466
Georgia · followed by · 1991 – present

Rulers

The line of king.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Adarnase IV of Iberia	888 – 923	35 years	ending not on record
David II of Iberia	923 – 937	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Sumbat I of Iberia	937 – 958	21 years	ending not on record	sibling
Bagrat II of Iberia	958 – 994	36 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
David III of Tao	978 – 1000	22 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Gurgen II of Georgia	994 – 1008	14 years	ending not on record

6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 888 – 1008. Median reign 21.5 years. 2 of 5 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

111,100 km² in 898, 61,300 km² in 1008; at its largest 111,100 km² in 898. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedKartli - drosha jvari · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ec.Domnowall (vectorisation SVG)

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

900 – 9992 rows

Bagrat III of Georgia · person · 960 – 1014
Bagrat II of Iberia · ruler · 937 – 994

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood120 years
stood longer than 51% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held111,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 47% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median22 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 68% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 1 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 120

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 876 – 1020, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 889, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q154816 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.