MONTORO  , a

town of southern Spain, in the province of Cordova, 27 M . E. by N. of the city of Cordova, on the Madrid-Cordova railway . Pop . (1900), 14,581 . Montoro was the Epora of the Romans, and became an important Moorish fortress in the middle ages, but it has been largely modernized . It stands on a rocky peninsula on the south bank of the Guadalquivir, here crossed by a fine bridge of four arches dating from the 16th century . Oil is largely manufactured, and there is considerable trade in timber, agricultural produce and livestock .