Tetzapotitlan

Tetzapotitlan was a Huastec town in northern Veracruz, its Nahuatl name referring to zapote trees. Scholars link it to the prehispanic city at Castillo de Teayo, also called Tzapotlan.

In 1480 Axayacatl's armies overran Tochpan and its twelve head towns. After taking the rebel town of Tziucohuac in 1486, Ahuitzotl stationed a permanent Mexica garrison at Tetzapotitlan in 1488 to control the conquered Huastec polities on the Aztec Empire's northeastern frontier.