Tzoite

Tzoite, also known as Sittee, was a Maya settlement on the coast of Belize at the northern edge of the Manche Ch’ol country. Its inhabitants maintained links with other coastal and inland communities, moving through a landscape of rivers and forest. By the seventeenth century both Yucatecan and Ch’olan languages were spoken there. Spanish missionaries sought to bring the region under their authority, while its people continued to move between settlements and the interior.