State · 588 – 888

Principality of Iberia

A state of 588 – 888 — 300 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Sasanian Iberia. It was replaced by Kingdom of the Iberians and followed by Kingdom of Abkhazia. Its line of rulers holds 4 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: 300 years; 588 – 888
Rulers: 4; the Ruler of Iberia
Most ground: 111,100 km²; in 888
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Principality of Iberia in 888, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Principality of Iberia in 888, 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.

Principality of Iberia in 638, first 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.

Principality of Iberia in 888, 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.

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

Sasanian Iberia · replaces

After it

Kingdom of the Iberians · replaced by · 888 – 1008
Kingdom of Abkhazia · followed by · 778 – 1008

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

killed, executed or dead in battleending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Guaram I of Iberia	588 – 590	2 years	ending not on record
Stephen I of Iberia	590 – 627	37 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Adarnase I of Iberia	627 – 637	10 years	ending not on record
Adarnase IV of Iberia	881 – 888	7 years	ending not on record

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 588 – 888. Median reign 8.5 years. 1 of 3 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.

34,600 km² in 638, 111,100 km² in 888; at its largest 111,100 km² in 888. 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)

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 stood300 years
stood longer than 73% 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 median10 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 35% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% 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.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 558 – 918, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 888, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q199389 (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.