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Castro -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 8285
Housing Units (2000): 3198
Land area (2000): 898.314009 sq. miles (2326.622504 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.004344 sq. miles (2.601240 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 899.318353 sq. miles (2329.223744 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 34.529907 N, 102.282176 W
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Castro, TX
Castro County
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Castro

Castro is a Romance language (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician) word, originally derived from Latin " Castrum", a pre-Roman military camp or fortification (cf: Greek: kastron; Proto-Celtic: * *Kassrik; ). The English-language equivalent is Chester.

It may refer to:

Castro (Caltrain station)

Castro Station was a Caltrain station located in Mountain View, California, just south of the railroad crossing at Rengstorff Avenue. It was replaced by the newer San Antonio station 0.8 mi (1 km) to the north in 1999. The last Castro boardings were in 2000.

Castro (surname)

Castro is a Romance ( Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Galician) surname coming from Latin castrum, a fortification. The English equivalent is Chester. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alicia Castro (born 1949), Argentine diplomat
  • Alvaro Castro (born 1989), Argentine developer
  • Américo Castro (1885–1972), Spanish historian
  • Ángel Castro y Argiz (1875–1956), father of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raúl Castro
  • Ariel Castro (1960–2013), Puerto Rican American kidnapper and rapist
  • Arles Castro (born 1979), Colombian track and road cyclist
  • Arturo Castro (1918–1975), Mexican actor of film and television
  • Aureo Castro (1917–1993), Macanese–Portuguese composer, musician and teacher
  • Balthazar (Isaac) Orobio de Castro, (c.1617–1687) Jewish philosopher
  • Bernadette Castro (born 1944), U.S. politician
  • Carlos Castro Mora (born 1978), Costa Rican footballer
  • Carlos Castro Borja (born 1967), Salvadoran footballer
  • César Castro (born 1982), Brazilian diver
  • Cipriano Castro (1858–1924), President of Venezuela
  • Crispin Castro Monroy (born 1936), Mexican politician
  • Daniel Castro (born 1992), Mexican baseball player
  • David Castro (born 1964), Brazilian swimmer
  • David Castro (actor) (born 1996), American actor
  • Dionísio Castro (born 1963), Portuguese long-distance runner
  • Domingos Castro (born 1963), Portuguese long-distance runner
  • Edmond Castro, Belizean politician
  • Eduardo Castro (born 1954), Mexican long-distance runner
  • Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (born 1951), Brazilian ethnologist
  • Elizabeth Castro, U.S. writer on web sites
  • Fernando Castro Pacheco (1918–2013), Mexican artist
  • Fidel Castro (born 1926), former President of Cuba
  • Francisco Castro (born 1979), Portuguese footballer
  • Germán Castro Caycedo (born 1940), Colombian journalist and writer
  • Gonzalo Castro (born 1987), German footballer
  • Gonzalo Castro Irizábal (born 1984), Uruguayan footballer
  • Guillén de Castro y Bellvis (1569–1631), Spanish dramatist
  • Héctor Castro (1904–1960), Uruguayan footballer
  • Henri Castro (1786–1865), pioneer of the Republic of Texas
  • Inês de Castro (1325–1355), Galician noblewoman and Queen of Portugal after her death
  • Jason Castro (baseball) (born 1987), U.S. baseball player
  • Jason Castro (singer) (born 1987), U.S. singer
  • Jayson Castro (born 1986), Filipino basketball player
  • Joaquín Castro (born 1974), American politician
  • Jorge Castro (boxer) (born 1967), Argentine boxer
  • José Castro (1808–1860), Mexican general governor of Alta California
  • José Antonio Castro (born 1980), Mexican footballer
  • Juan Castro (born 1972), Mexican baseball player
  • Juan José Castro (1895–1968), Argentine composer
  • Juanita Castro (born 1933), Cuban revolutionary, sister of Fidel and Raul Castro
  • Julian Castro (born 1974), American politician
  • Julián Castro (1810 – 1875), President of Venezuela
  • Luciano Castro (born 1975), Argentine actor
  • Luz Dary Castro (born 1978), Colombian shot putter and discus thrower
  • Marco Castro (born 1976), a Peruvian American film director
  • Mariela Castro (born 1962), Cuban LGBT and sex education activist, and daughter of Raúl Castro
  • Mauricio Castro (born 1981), Honduran footballer
  • Michael Castro, American poet
  • Miguel Castro (born 1994), Dominican professional baseball player
  • Nelson Castro (politician), a member of the New York State Assembly
  • Nelson Castro (weightlifter) (born 1974), Colombian weightlifter
  • Noli de Castro (born 1949), Filipino politician
  • Oscar Castro-Neves (1940–2013), Brazilian musician
  • Ramón Castro (Cuban revolutionary) (1924-2016), brother of Fidel and Raul Castro
  • Ramón Castro (born 1976), U.S. baseball player
  • Ramón Castro Jijón (1915–1984), military ruler of Ecuador
  • Raquel Castro (born 1994), American actress
  • Raul Hector Castro (1916–2015), U.S. politician
  • Raúl Castro (born 1931), current President of Cuba
  • Roberto Michael Castro (born 1989), Ecuadorian footballer
  • Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885), Spanish Galician language writer and poet
  • Sal Castro (1933–2013), Mexican-American educator and activist
  • Saleta Castro (born 1989), a Spanish (Galician) triathlete
  • Salvador Castaneda Castro (1888–1965), Salvadorian politician
  • Sheilla Castro (born 1983), Brazilian volleyball player
  • Starlin Castro (born 1990), Dominican baseball player
  • Verónica Castro (born 1952), Mexican actress
  • Zulema Castro de Peña (c. 1920–2013), Argentine activist
Castro (clothing)

Castro is an Israeli clothing company specializing in men's and women's fashions. Publicly traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, the company is valued at 100 million US dollars.In 2013, it was Israel's largest fashion company.

The chain has 180 stores, with locations in Israel, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand, and Ukraine. Controlled by the Castro and Rotter families, who together hold 67% of the company's shares, the company's sales turnover reached approximately ₪533 million in fiscal 2006.

Castro (musician)

Theophilus Tagoe (born 1 May 1982, disappeared 6 July 2014), popularly known as Castro or Castro Under Fire, was a Ghanaian hiplife recording artist and musician.

Usage examples of "castro".

Indeed, Cuba itself might have initiated nuclear war when a US terrorist (Mongoose) team blew up a factory, killing 400 people according to Castro, at one of the most tense moments of the crisis, when the Cubans may have had their fingers on the button.

Only the long arm of the Americans and their Central Intelligence Agency could have destroyed Cayo Santa Maria and wrecked his scheme to terminate the Castro regime.

The concensus was that as soon as Castro was gone, chaos and not democracy would come to the island and to the region.

During the meeting, the Pentagon representatives stated that none of the courses of action then on the table would remove the Castro regime.

In this case it was a drive-by shooting, in broad daylight, in the Castro district, with three dozen eager and contradictory witnesses to sort out.

Not long afterward, the United States and Cuba reached an agreement by which Castro pledged to stem the exodus, and we promised to take twenty thousand more Cubans each year through the normal process.

The cult, born of Miami’s necessary demonology-according to which Castro the devil, Hannibal-the-Cannibal Castro, would eat the boy alive, would tear out his immortal soul and munch it down with a few fava beans and a glass of red wine-instantly developed a priesthood as well.

Once Castro gave a subtle tug on his good earlobe, three stocky men in guayaberas materialized to escort the voluble cleaners off the premises.

Noi intanto ci stavamo prepa­rando per fare un giro in macchina su a Sanchez, per poi svoltare a destra, e scendere giù verso Castro lungo la Diciassettesima e poi di nuovo a destra e giù verso il cinema, che in verità stava a un solo isolato da qui.

And Raymond had become totally convinced that the other surplus Castro head was only a clever movie prop, and that it was now safely suppurating in the belly of a lemon shark at a club named Hell.

But turn on the radio in Dade County and you'll realize that, after 36 years, the mere act of annoying Castro is considered a great moral victory.

It should state that Trafficante advises no Mob retaliation against Castro for nationalizing the casinos.

The note’s supposed to say that you recommend no reprisals against Castro for nationalizing the casinos.

He also secured a note from Santo Trafficante personally requesting that no Mafia reprisals be launched against Castro for nationalizing the Havana casinos.

I do not pretend that handsome presents, or places in my concerns for his nephew and natural sons, did not have their effect on him, but he was not a weak unprincipled man like this Castro, and he was capable of taking decisive action in support of his friends.