Bulgarism is a political movement for the use of the Bolgar ethnonym among Kazan Tatars. Volga Tatars are a Turkic people of Russia most of whom occupy the west central portion of the Ural Mountains. It rejects the use of Tatar in favor of the Volga Bulgars, who are considered to be the ancestors of modern-day Volga Tatars. Volga Bulgaria or Volga-Kama Bolghar, is an historic state that existed between the 7th and 13th centuries around the confluence of Volga Tatars are a Turkic people of Russia most of whom occupy the west central portion of the Ural Mountains. Therefore, Bulgarism is a narrow term for those Volga Tatars refusing to be called Tatars.