Soon after a disastrous Caucasian uprising in Armenia against the Arabs in 772, a branch of the powerful Armenian Bagratid (Bagratuni) family relocated permanently to neo-K'art'li. His family rapidly acculturating to the mixed Armeno-K'art'velian environment, the Bagratid Ashot I displaced the weak presiding prince of the Guaramid dynasty in 813 and ushered what turned out to be a millennium of Georgian Bagratid rule. In 888 his kinsman Adarnase II resuscitated K'art'velian kingship.
