Coweta (tribal town)

Coweta was a tribal town and one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Confederacy[1] in what is now the Southeast United States, along with Kasihta (Cusseta), Abihka, and Tuckabutche.

[2] Coweta was located on the Chattahoochee River in what the Spanish called Apalachicola Province now in the modern state of Alabama.

It was a central trading city of the Lower Towns of the Mucogee Confederacy.

Members of the tribal town were also known as Caouitas or Caoüita.[2][p.

391] The Cherokee language name for all the Lower Creek is Anikhawitha.[2][p.