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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTEFRIO  , a

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town of
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southern
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Spain, in the
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province of
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Granada, on the
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river Bilano . Pop . (1900), 10,725 . Montefrio is largely Moorish in
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character, and dominated by a Moorish
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castle . Being built midway between the Sierra de Priego and Sierra Parapanda, and commanding the open valley between these ranges, it became one of the
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chief frontier fortresses of the
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Moors in the 15th
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century . Its
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industries include manufactures of
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cotton stuffs,
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alcohol and
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soap .

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