in 1008, gurgen died, and bagrat succeeded him as king of kings of the georgians, becoming thus the first king of a unified realm of abkhazia and iberia (in their broadest sense these two included abkhazia proper/abasgia, egrisi/samegrelo, imereti, svaneti, racha-lechkhumi, guria, ajaria, kartli proper, hither tao, klarjeti, shavsheti, meskheti, and javakheti) what was to be henceforth known as "sakartvelo" – "all-georgia".