Nassau (disambiguation)

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Several places in the German-speaking area are named Nassau, but most places and things named Nassau ultimately derive their name from the town of Nassau on the Lahn in Rhineland-Palatinate, after which the region and the House of Nassau are named. In German, nass means "wet" and Au (more often written as Aue) can be a short form of either Flussaue (floodplain) or Auwald (riparian forest). It can also be used as a synonym for Feuchtwiese (wet meadow). Aue derives from Middle High German ouwe, which is related to the Latin aqua ("water").

Nassau may refer to:

Places

Austria

• Nassau (Groß Sankt Florian), incorporated village of Groß Sankt Florian

Bahamas

• Nassau, Bahamas, capital city of the Bahamas, on the island of New Providence

Canada

• Nassau District, renamed Home District, regional division in Upper Canada from 1788 to 1792
• Nassau Street (Winnipeg), Manitoba
• Nassau Street, Toronto

Cook Islands

• Nassau (Cook Islands), one of the Northern Cook Islands

Germany

Connected with Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate

• Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, a town founded in AD 915
• Bad Ems-Nassau, collective municipality including the towns of Bad Ems and Nassau and its surrounding areas
• Nassau Castle, the ancestral seat of the House of Nassau
• Nassau (region), the broader geographical and historical region comprising the former independent country of Nassau
• Nassau Nature Park, a major nature park in Germany located within the historical state of Nassau
• County of Nassau, a German state within the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, or one of its many successor counties
• Duchy of Nassau, an independent German state between 1806 and 1866 and the ultimate successor of the medieval county
• Hesse-Nassau, a Prussian province formed following their annexation of the Duchy of Nassau (along with other territories)
• Province of Nassau, a short-lived province of Nazi Germany (1944–1945) created from the formal division of Hesse-Nassau

Other Nassaus in Germany

• Nassau (Frauenstein), incorporated village of Frauenstein in the Ore Mountains, Saxony
• Nassau, landscape in the Meissen district
• Nassau, incorporated unpopulated place of Meissen, Saxony
• Nassau, incorporated village of Offenberg, Bavaria
• Nassau, incorporated village of Weikersheim, Baden-Württemberg

Hong Kong

• Nassau Street, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon

Indonesia

• Nassau, a subdistrict in Toba Samosir Regency, North Sumatra
• Nassau Range, alternate name of the Sudirman Range in Indonesia

Ireland

• Nassau Street, Dublin

Jamaica

• Nassau Valley

Netherlands

• Baarle-Nassau, a town in the southern Netherlands

Poland

• Mokra (German: Mokrau, named Nassau O.S. 1936–1945)

Slovenia

• Nasova (formerly German: Nassau in der Steiermark)

Taiwan

• historic name for Taitung City

United States

• Nassau, Delaware
• Nassau County, Florida
• Nassau Village-Ratliff, Florida
• Nassau, Minnesota
• Nassau, New York (disambiguation)
• East Nassau, New York
• Nassau (town), New York, in Rensselaer County
• Nassau (village), New York
• Nassau County, New York, on Long Island
• Nassau Island, former name of Long Island
• Nassau Lake in Rensselaer County
• Nassau Lake, New York, corresponding census-designated place
• Nassau Street (Manhattan), New York City
• Nassau Street (Princeton, New Jersey)
• Nassau Bay, Texas

People

Nobles

• House of Nassau, a European aristocratic dynasty
• House of Orange-Nassau, a noble dynasty from the Netherlands
• Louis of Nassau (1538–1574), Dutch general
• Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1567–1625), Dutch stadtholder
• Sophia of Nassau (1836–1913), Queen consort of Sweden and Norway
• William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford (1717–1781), British courtier, diplomat, and statesman
• House of Nassau-Siegen
• John Maurice of Nassau (1604–1679), Dutch colonial governor
• House of Nassau-Weilburg, a noble dynasty from Germany, monarchs of Luxembourg
• Adolf of Nassau (disambiguation)
• Adolph of Nassau-Weilburg (disambiguation)
• Maria of Nassau (disambiguation)
• William of Nassau (disambiguation)

Surname

• Charles William Nassau (1804–1878), Presbyterian minister, president of Lafayette College

People with the given name

• Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), English lawyer and economist

Ships

• HMS Nassau, a UK Royal Navy name for many ships
• HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau, ships of the Netherlands navy
• MV Queen of Nassau, name of HMCS Canada after exiting government service
• Nassau-class battleship, an Imperial German battleship class
• SMS Nassau, a 1908 German battleship
• SS Nassau, a steam turbine-driven twin-screw passenger-and-cargo ocean liner, launched in 1928
• USS Nassau, a U.S. Navy ship name for multiple ships
• Nassau, the first steam ferry, built by Robert Fulton

Other uses

• Nassau (album), a 1995 album by The Sea and Cake
• Nassau (bet), a type of bet between golfers
• Nassau (Staten Island Railway station), United States
• Nassau Coliseum, an arena in Uniondale, New York, United States
• Nassau Fjord, in Prince William Sound, Alaska
• Nassau grouper, an endangered species of fish
• Nassau Hall, Princeton University, New Jersey, United States
• Nassau Light Railway, a German railway company
• Nassauische Neue Presse, a German newspaper in the Nassau area
• Nassau (crater), a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon
• Nassau Club, a private club in Princeton, New Jersey, founded by Woodrow Wilson

See also

• Battle of Nassau (disambiguation)
• Fort Nassau (disambiguation)
• Nassau County (disambiguation)
• Nassau Street (disambiguation)
• Orange-Nassau (disambiguation)

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