Amollan

Amollan, called Amole in Spanish accounts, was the leading state of the Amula highlands in southern Jalisco. Copalla and Teotitlan depended on it, and its people spoke Amultecan and other western Otomi languages.

Early in the sixteenth century Amollan and its neighbours repelled Purépecha invasions. Spain took the area in 1523 and grouped its towns into a colonial province by the early 1530s. Franciscans arrived in the 1540s, but a permanent parish organization followed only in 1579; the province lasted until 1821.