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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 923 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CABRA , a See also:

town of See also:southern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of See also:Cordova; 28 m. S.E. by S. of Cordova, on the See also:Jaen-See also:Malaga railway. Pop. (1900) 13,127. Cabra is built in a fertile valley between the Sierra de Cabra and the Sierra de See also:Montilla, which together See also:form the See also:watershed between the See also:rivers Cabra and Guadajoz. The town was for several centuries an episcopal see. Its See also:chief buildings are the See also:cathedral, originally a See also:mosque, and the ruined See also:castle, which is the chief among many interesting See also:relics of Moorish See also:rule. The neighbouring See also:fields of See also:clay afford material for the manufacture of bricks and pottery; coarse See also:cloth is See also:woven in the town; and there is a considerable See also:trade in See also:farm produce. Cabra is the See also:Roman Baebro or Aegabro. It was delivered from the See also:Moors by See also:Ferdinand III. of See also:Castile in 1240, and entrusted to the See also:Order of Calatrava ; in 1331 it was recaptured by the Moorish See also:king of See also:Granada; but in the following See also:century it was finally reunited to See also:Christian Spain.

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