Tepexic

Tepexic was a Popoloca state centered on the hilltop city of Tepexi el Viejo in the southern highlands of what is now Puebla. Its people farmed the Tehuacán Valley and shared the region with rival states such as Cuthá.

In the fifteenth century Tepexic preserved its independence through marriages with the dynasty of Tenochtitlan. In 1503 armies from Tlatelolco invaded and defeated its lord Tlachquiáhuitl, making it a tributary. During the Spanish campaigns of the 1520s, the Lienzo de Tlaxcala depicted its submission to Cortés.