Nassau

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Nassau was principally the name of the German town Nassau, which has since given its name to many other places and entities, notably including the royal House of Nassau, the former sovereign Duchy of Nassau in Germany, Nassau County, New York, and the city of Nassau, Bahamas.

Nassau may refer to:

Places

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

Cook Islands

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

Germany

• Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, a town founded in AD 915, after which most other entities called Nassau are named directly or indirectly:
  • Nassau (region), the broader geographical and historical region comprising the former independent country Nassau
  • Nassau (Verbandsgemeinde), an administrative district including the town of Nassau and its surrounding areas
  • Duchy of Nassau, German state within the Holy Roman Empire and an independent state until 1866
  • Hesse-Nassau, Prussian province formed by annexation of the Duchy of Nassau
  • Nassau Castle, ancestral seat of the House of Nassau
  • Nassau Nature Park, a major nature park in Germany located within the historical state of Nassau
• Nassau, Saxony, a village in the Ore Mountains

Hong Kong

• Nassau Street, Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Kowloon Peninsula

Indonesia

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

Ireland

• Nassau Street (Dublin)

Netherlands

• Baarle-Nassau, a town in the southern Netherlands

United States

• Nassau, Delaware
• Nassau, Minnesota
• Nassau, New York
  • Nassau (town), New York, in Rensselaer County
    • Nassau (village), New York
    • East Nassau, New York
  • Nassau Island, former name for "Long Island"
    • Nassau County, New York, on Long Island
  • Nassau Street (Manhattan), New York
• Nassau Bay, Texas
• Nassau County, Florida
• Nassau Fjord, a fjord in Prince William Sound, Alaska
• Nassau Street (Princeton), New Jersey
• Nassau Village-Ratliff, Florida

People

House of Orange-Nassau

• House of Orange-Nassau,

a noble dynasty originally from Germany and at present the monarchs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands:

• John William Friso, Prince of Orange, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, who became the titular Prince of Orange in 1702
• Louis of Nassau (1538 – 1574), third son of William, Count of Nassau, and Juliana of Stolberg
• Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1567 – 1625), son of William the Silent and Princess Anna of Saxony
• Sofia of Nassau
• William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (Willem of Nassau)
• William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford

Of the branch of Nassau-Siegen

• John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

House of Luxembourg-Nassau (formerly Nassau-Weilburg)

a noble dynasty originally from Germany and at present the monarchs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

• Adolf of Germany, usually known as Adolf of Nassau
• Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
• Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
• William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Wilhelm Alexander von Nassau)

Other

• Nassau William Senior

Nobles

• Adolf of Nassau (disambiguation)
• Adolph of Nassau-Weilburg (disambiguation)
• House of Nassau, a European aristocratic dynasty
• Maria of Nassau (disambiguation)
• William of Nassau (disambiguation)

Art, entertainment, and media

• Nassau (album), a 1995 album by The Sea and Cake
• Nassauische Neue Presse, a German newspaper in the Nassau area

Battles

• Battle of Nassau (disambiguation)
  • Battle of Nassau (1720), in the Bahamas, during the War of the Quadruple Alliance
  • Battle of Nassau (1776), in the Bahamas, during the American War of Independence

Ships

• HMS Nassau, a UK Royal Navy name for many ships
• HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau, Dutch gunboat
• MV Queen of Nassau, name of HMCS Canada after exiting government service
• Nassau-class battleship, an Imperial German battleship class
  • SMS Nassau, a German battleship
• SS Nassau, a steam turbine-driven twin-screw passenger-and-cargo ocean liner, launched in 1928, serving as "Nassau" 1951-1961
• USS Nassau, a U.S. Navy shipname for multiple ships
  • USS Nassau (CVE-16), a United States Navy escort aircraft carrier
  • USS Nassau (LHA-4), a United States Navy amphibious assault ship
• Nassau (steamboat), the first steam ferry, built by Robert Fulton, which started operating in 1814 on the East River between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan in New York City

Transportation

• Nassau (Staten Island Railway station), United States
• Nassau Light Railway, a German railway company

Buildings

• Nassau Hall, Princeton University

Other uses

• Nassau (bet), a type of bet between golfers
• Nassau (cookie), a chocolate peanut butter sandwich cookie from Pepperidge Farm
• Nassau Coliseum, an arena in Uniondale, New York, USA
• Nassau grouper, an endangered species of fish

See also

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