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Turcios.

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)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 312–313.