Tixtla

Tixtla was a hill town in central Guerrero and part of Coixcatlalpan, a multiethnic country where Nahuatl speakers lived alongside Tlapanec and Chontal communities.

The Coixca towns resisted Aztec expansion before accepting Tenochtitlan's rule. The region passed to Spanish conquerors in the early 1520s, when the nearby garrison of Chilapa fell in 1522. During Mexico's independence war, José María Morelos took Tixtla in 1811, but royalists recovered it in 1814. In 1824 it became a city in the State of Mexico.