El nombre y el origen de Murcia: la posible impronta cristiana en la fundación de la ciudad
Abstract
In this contribution to the
festschrift dedicated to professor A. González, we suggest that the name of the actual city of Murcia possibly comes from a primitive Christian denomination as a great deal of its first inhabitants were descendants of Hispanians who received a Christian education. The myrtle, from which the current place name originates, is a plant with many religious connotations since pagan times in relationship to fertility and regeneration) and appears often linked to heroes graves. Later, in Christian times, it had a close relationship to sanctuaries and martyr memories. A detailed study is made of this subject. This thesis affirms that the Alberca martyrium, very close to the city of Murcia (together with the installations in Algezares), would constitute a very important settlement; it could be specifically a great sanctuary articullated around a martyr memory. The Martyrium would be just the site where the place name Myrtea/Murtea/Murcia was formed. At the beginning of the 9th century, under Arabian rule, the sanctuary's population would have been forced to evacuate the place due to a series of civil struggles, taking with them the place name Murtea to the nearby valley where Murcia was founded. Other parallels of population and place name removals are taken into account.
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