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Ahuilizapan.

Headword: 
Ahuilizapan.
Principal English Translation: 

a place name important in the Mixtón War; this war was a rebellion in the province of Nueva Galicia put down by the Spanish colonizers and their indigenous allies under the command of Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza
Fernando Horcasitas, "Anales jeroglíficos e históricos de Tepeaca," Antropología 11 (1974), 241.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Nican in ipan xihuitl in opoliuhque xochipilteca, in icuac huiya virrey don Antonio de Mendoza in ompan Ahuilizapan. (Nahuatl regularizado.) = Aquí en este año perecieron los xochipilteca cuando fue el virrey don Antonio de Mendoza a Ahuilizapan (¿Orizaba?) (seventeenth century, Tepeaca, Puebla)
Fernando Horcasitas, "Anales jeroglíficos e históricos de Tepeaca," Antropología 11 (1974), 241.