Quiahuiztlan

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Quiahuiztlan was one of the four altepetl (cities) that formed the Tlaxcala confederation in central Mexico. It is located in what is now the city of Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala State. There is another place with the same name in Veracruz State, but it is a different site from the Tlaxcala Quiahuiztlan and belonged to the Totonac culture in the 16th century.

The Veracruz site has temples, a ball court, plazas, and houses on terraces on a mountain slope, and is often linked to the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés. Excavations at Quiahuiztlan in Tlaxcala were conducted by Alfonso Medellín Zenil and Ramón Arellanos Melgarejo of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

In the early 1500s, Quiahuiztlan briefly left the Tlaxcala confederation and replaced Franciscan priests with Dominican ones. It later rejoined Tlaxcala, but the idea of secession remained as a political threat.