Volga Tatars - Bulgarism

Bulgarism

"Bulgarism" is a term for the position that the Kazan Tatars are significantly descended from the Turkic Volga Bulgars or are actual Bulgars that have not mixed. The alternative position assumes that Tatar ethnogenesis was only completed upon the arrival of the Cumans and Kipchaks. Tatarstan was called Bulgaristan until 1919. The "Bulgarist" position espouses the view that there was very little, or no mixing with Mongols, Cumans, and Kipchaks after the conquest of Volga Bulgaria, especially in the northern regions that ultimately became Tatarstan.