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MORON DE LA FRONTERA

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 861 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORON DE LA FRONTERA , or Molten,' (anc. Arumi), a See also:

town of See also:southern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of See also:Seville; 32 M. S.E. of the See also:city of Seville. Pop. (1900) 14,190. Moron occupies an irregular site upon broken See also:chalk hillocks near the right See also:bank of the Guadaira. It is connected by See also:rail with See also:Utrera on the See also:Cadiz & Seville See also:line. On the highest See also:elevation to the eastward are the ruins of the See also:ancient See also:castle, of considerable importance during the Moorish See also:period, when Moron, as its full name implies, was a frontier fortress; the castle was afterwards used as a See also:palace by the See also:counts of Urena. In 1810-1811 it was fortified by the See also:French, but blown up by them in the following See also:year. The See also:chief public See also:building of Moron is the large See also:parish See also:church, which See also:dates from the 16th See also:century. Moron is alsc famous throughout Spain for its See also:marble and its chalk (cal de Moron), from which the whitewash extensively used in the See also:Peninsula is derived.

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