The name of the Spanish city of Murcia in the south of the country echoes the Georgian word "murtsa" (მურწა) - "barbel fish" - enough to fix this version as the official etymology.
Barbel (barbus murca), a fish of which the local river Segura has always been full, does regular migrations through a small dam in the center of the city. Even a monument has even been erected right in the river to celebrate this.
If "murcia" was initially a Roman word, it should have been pronounced exactly as [murtsa].
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