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Valencia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Valencia.
Principal English Translation: 

a place name and a Spanish last name, but it could also be used by indigenous people; e.g. don Pablo de Valencia, municipal governor of Tlaxcala in 1561 and 1562

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 166–167.

Orthographic Variants: 
Balençia, BalenÇia
Attestations from sources in English: 

gor d: pablo de balençia (also written balenÇia) = The governor was don Pablo de Valencia. (entries for 1561 and 1562)
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 166–167.