MORON DE LA FRONTERA  , or Molten,' (anc . Arumi), a

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