after his death, a local dynasty seems to have ceased to exist, and the kingdom fell under kvirike ii, chorepiscopus of kakheti ( 929–976). the area then was contested between his successor, david ( 976–1010), and the georgian king bagrat iii who sought to bring all georgian lands into a single monarchy. the next kakhetian ruler, already titled as the king, kvirike iii the great (1010–1037) finally absorbed hereti into his kingdom of kakheti-hereti in the 1020s. when the georgian king david the builder brought the kingdom under his control in 1104, hereti became a "saeristavo" (i.e. a duchy) within the georgian realm. georgian rule of hereti was interrupted by atabegs of azerbaijan, khwarezmid empire and ilkhanid rule. after the final disintegration of the unified georgian monarchy in 1466, hereti came under the kakhetian crown. afterwards the name of the province itself has gradually disappeared from the historic records and public usage due to successively kara koyunlu, aq qoyunlu, safavid, afsharid, and ottoman rules.