It is hardly surprising that neo-K'art'li was also the launching pad for the revival of K'artvelian sovereignty, an undertaking involving the accumulation of lands already in the possession of the Georgians and those areas, including much of K'art'li itself, under Arab jurisdiction. 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.
