succession of princes
...that before the Bagratids unified Georgia, Caucasian Iberia was ruled by a succession of princes under the influence of the Byzantines, the Persians and the Muslim Caliphate from the 6th to the 9th centuries?
...that before the <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Bagrationi_Dynasty" id="mwDYg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bagrationi Dynasty">Bagratids</a> unified <a href="./History_of_Georgia_(country)" id="mwDYk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="History of Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Caucasian_Iberia" id="mwDYo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Caucasian Iberia">Caucasian Iberia</a> was ruled by a <b id="mwDYs"><a class="mw-redirect" href="./Principate_of_Iberia" id="mwDYw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Principate of Iberia">succession of princes</a></b> under the <a href="./Sphere_of_influence" id="mwDY0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sphere of influence">influence</a> of the <a href="./Byzantine_Empire" id="mwDY4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantines</a>, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Sassanid_Empire" id="mwDY8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sassanid Empire">Persians</a> and the <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Umayyad" id="mwDZA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Umayyad">Muslim Caliphate</a> from the 6th to the 9th centuries?