Chota (also spelled Echota; Cherokee: Itsati) was a Cherokee town near present-day Vonore, Tennessee. With a population estimated between 300 and 500, it was the largest Cherokee town in the region; Henry Timberlake's map of the Tennessee region labelled it "the metropolis." Echota became the de facto Cherokee capital around 1730, taking that title from the adjacent town of Tanasi.

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