Çallı

Çallı was a fortified center on the Shumbut in the lands of Volga Bulgaria and later the Kazan khanate. Archaeologists have found remains of surface and semi-subterranean dwellings, a bone-working shop and storage pits from before the Mongol conquest, as well as smithies of the khanate period. Under Kazan it was the center of a subordinate principality and played a part in the khanate's politics. A land inspection of 1619 described the old fortified site as deserted, while recording several neighboring Tatar settlements bearing the name Çallı.