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Arteaga.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Arteaga.
Principal English Translation: 

a last name; e.g. Domingo de Arteaga, a Basque settler in the region of Jalisco who served as corregidor ca. 1560, associated with communities along the coast
Thomas Calvo, Eustaquio Celestino, Magdalena Gómez, Jean Meyer, and Ricardo Xochitemol, Xalisco, la voz de un pueblo en el siglo XVI (Mexico: CIESAS/CEMCA, 1993).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"Eh aquí en primer lugar con lo que nos afligió Domingo de Arteaga.... Por esto nos reunió el mayordomo cristiano Domingo de Arteaga, para hacer la gran milpa de algodón, y cosechamos en total doscientas cincuenta cargas de algodón, y los llevamos a la casa del mayordomo Domingo Arteaga...."
Thomas Calvo, Eustaquio Celestino, Magdalena Gómez, Jean Meyer, and Ricardo Xochitemol, Xalisco, la voz de un pueblo en el siglo XVI (Mexico: CIESAS/CEMCA, 1993), 81, 88.

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