Toztlan

Toztlan was a Nahua district in the volcanic Sierra de los Tuxtlas on the southern Veracruz coast. Its name, a sixteenth-century spelling of Tuxtla, meant place of the rabbit.

In the fifteenth century the Aztecs conquered the district, and the Codex Mendoza recorded Toztlan as a tributary of the Triple Alliance. The Spanish founded the villa of Tuxtla in 1525; in 1529 the crown granted it to Hernán Cortés as part of the Marquisate of the Valley of Oaxaca. A 1580 report listed six dependent settlements around the town.