Headword:
Turcios.
Principal English Translation:
a Spanish last name; e.g. Antonio de Turcios, was a secretary for the Audiencia and escribano mayor for the government of New Spain; he apparently worked with interpreters to prepare the Ordenanzas de Cuauhtinchan, orders in Nahuatl from Viceroy Luis de Velasco in 1559 about how things should operate in that altepetl near Puebla; earlier Turcios had worked with Viceroy Mendoza
(Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, sixteenth century)