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MORATALLA

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 816 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORATALLA  , a

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town of eastern Spain, in the province of
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Murcia, 40 M . W.N.W. of the city of Murcia . Pop . (1900), 12,689 . Moratalla is' built on a mountainous peninsula, almost surrounded by the Grande and Benamor, small rivers which meet and flow eastward to join the Segura . The town is a labyrinth of narrow, crooked streets, and some of its houses are Moorish in character . Its chief buildings are the
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modern hospital and theatre, and the 17th-century church . It has manufactures of coarse
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cloth,
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spirits and
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soap . The nearest railway station is Calasparra, 6 m. east, on the Murcia-
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Albacete railway .

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