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Francia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

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Francia.
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France
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, 1614)
see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 280–281.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ynin miec Abbadias yhuan Prioratos oncatqui Yn Francia yhuan Italia yn ompa yn huel motlacamati mocuiltonohua = There are many of these abbeys and priories in France and Italy, where they are very prosperous and rich (central Mexico, 1614)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 280–1.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yaotlatolcomo[n]tli in Mexico mito ouallaque Françia tlaca yhua[n] morosme aoc tlacama[n]ca in cemiluitl yn iquac lunes = se dijo que vinieron los hombres de Francia y los moros. Todo el día lunes ninguno de los hombres apareció. (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 174–175.