Volga Bulgaria's Muslim community preferred to call themselves "Muslims" ("Möselmannar"), but used the word "Bulghar" to distinguish themselves from nomadic Muslim Kipchaks. They did not call themselves "Tatars" until the 19th century. Russian sources originally distinguished Volga Bulgars from nomadic Tatars, but later the word "Tatar" became synonymous with "Turkic Muslim". To distinguish between themselves, they started to use names of the khanates: the population of Khanate of Kazan called themselves the "people of Kazan" ("Qazanlı"); this name was also used by the steppe Tatars and by the Russians.