Tequitinitlan
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Tequitinitlan | |
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Clockwise from top: Seven Caves district, Crosstown Expressway, Old City transit station, The Rebel Cause memorial, University of Tequitinitlan Physics campus | |
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| Country | Zacapican |
| Region | Zacaco |
| Atlepetl | Tequitinitlan |
| Merged | 1780 |
| Huecalpolli | 12
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| Government | |
| • Tlatoani | Manauia Tlaxetli |
| • Mayor | Cachima Ezmac |
| • Magistrate | Tzotemoc Miltic |
| Area | |
| • Total | 349 km2 (135 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 221 m (725 ft) |
| Population (2019 census) | |
| • Total | 4,310,645 |
| • Density | 12,352/km2 (31,990/sq mi) |
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Tequitinitlan, known colloquially as Tequi, is the capital city of Zacapican. The city is located within the country's eastern Zacaco region, and is less than 200 kilometers from the southern Thassalian Ocean. The city is made up of more than 900 Calpolli communal wards, which are organized into 12 Huecalpolli or super-wards that serve as the macro level subdivision of Zacapitec cities with a population exceeding 200,000. Tequitinitlan (lit. "City of Workers") was formed following the Red Banner Revolution in the year 1780 through the merging of six Atlepetls including the Imperial capital at Chicomoztoc into one unified urban center, and has multiple distinct "centers" which could each be described as a downtown area in their own right. Like Zacapican's largest city Tecolotlan, the city of Tequitinitlan encompasses the entire area of the corresponding Atlepelt of Tequitinitlan, placing the second and third level subdivisions on the same scale. Thus, the Tlatoani and Mayor of the city operate as a de facto diarchy with preference given to the Tlatoani as the Atlepetl level executive in case of dispute. The seat of the Monarchy of Zacapican which is also the formal seat of the national government is located within Tequitinitlan in a special district of the city known as the Tlatoloztotla which is governed directly by the national monarch. Offices of the Tlacacallique parliament and other aspects of the elected government are located immediately outside the bounds of the Tlatoloztotla, opposite the royal palace of government in which the Chief Secretary and the executive government of the monarch resides. The space between the two is the Zocalo or central plaza of the city of Tequitinitlan, which is known as the Tribunal Square. Tequitinitlan is the largest city by both area and population in the Zacaco region and the second most populous city in the country.
Through its earlier iterations as the city of Chicomoztoc, Tequitinitlan is the oldest known continuously inhabited settlement in Zacapican with its foundation being recorded some time after the beginning of the Old Empire period around 2000 BCE. The original settlement, which is now the core of the Tequitinitlan metropolis, served as the religious and political center of Zacapican for an almost unbroken period since its foundation into the present era. In the early modern period, prior to the merger which formed the modern city, the area of Tequitinitlan was a nascent megalopolis with a booming population due to the early effects of the industrial revolution. In the years leading up to the Red Banner capture of the city, a dichotomy had developed in which the wealthy and the factories and workhouses they owned would be situated in and around Chicomoztoc, while the growing satellite cities were full of slums and ghettos inhabited by displaced peasants and minority communities from the countryside which flocked to the cities in search of work. This highly polarized dichotomy was broken soon after the Red Banner takeover of the city and the flight of many of the city's elites. The land between the cities, reserved by pochteca estates previously, was opened up to the population of the city to settle in. The cities of the megalopolis remained formally separate but began to meet each other as they expanded in this fashion. In the same short period between the fall of the city to the rebels and the end of the revolutionary war, the factories at the heart of the city were relocated all across the region to be nearer to their workforce, which organically developed into the urban replication of the Red Banners' Calpolli system. Near the end of the revolution, Tequitinitlan was formed from the merger of its component settlements and named after the population of slum-dwellers turned urban workers which had radically reshaped the region in a short period of time. Ever since this 18th century foundation, Tequitinitlan has remained a major economic and industrial center and the hub of activity in the Zacaco region.