 As a result, in 732, governor Marwan ibn Muhammad (the future Caliph Marwan II) named Ashot III Bagratuni as the presiding prince of Armenia, an act which essentially re-confirmed the country's autonomy within the Caliphate.With the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate after the Abbasid Revolution, a period of repression was inaugurated.This was followed by Caliph al-Mansur revoking the privileges and abolishing the subsidies paid to the various Armenian princes (the "nakharars") and imposing harsher taxation, leading to the outbreak of another major rebellion in 774.