CABRA  , a

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