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Nassau

Nassau may mean the following:

Placenames

Germany
Nassau, Germany, a town in Rhineland-Palatinate founded in AD 915, after which all the following (except the village in Saxony) are named, directly or indirectly
Nassau Castle, ancestral seat of the House of Nassau
Nassau (state), German state within the Holy Roman Empire
Hesse-Nassau, Prussian province formed by annexation of the Duchy of Nassau
Nassau, Saxony, a village in the Ore Mountains

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

Indonesia
Sudirman Range, aka Nassau Range: one of the names of the highest mountain range in Indonesia

Ireland
Nassau Street (Dublin)

Netherlands
Baarle-Nassau, a town in the southern Netherlands

United States
Nassau, Delaware
Nassau, Minnesota
Nassau (town), New York
Nassau (village), New York
East Nassau, New York
Nassau Bay, Texas
Nassau County, Florida
Nassau County, New York
Nassau Fjord, a fjord in Prince William Sound, Alaska
Nassau Street (Princeton), New Jersey
Nassau Street (Manhattan), New York
Nassau Village-Ratliff, Florida

House of Nassau

Of the House of Orange-Nassau, royal dynasty of the Netherlands: Adolf of Nassau (disambiguation)
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

Of the branch of Nassau-Weilburg, ultimately the grand ducal dynasty 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

Ships

USS Nassau (CVE-16), a United States Navy escort aircraft carrier
USS Nassau (LHA-4), a United States Navy amphibious assault ship
SMS Nassau, a German battleship
Nassau (steamboat), a steamboat placed in operation by Robert Fulton between Manhattan and Brooklyn in the U.S. state of New York in 1814

Other uses

Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau, a church in Germany
Fort Nassau, name of several forts built by the Dutch in the 17th century
Nassau Agreement, a treaty between the USA and the UK trading missiles for rights to lease a nuclear submarine base
Nassau (album), a 1995 album by The Sea and Cake
Nassau (bet), a type of bet between golfers that is essentially three separate bets. Money is wagered on the best score in the front 9, back 9, and total 18 holes.
Nassau Coliseum, an arena in Uniondale, New York, USA
Nassau Community College, a two-year college in Nassau County, New York, USA
Nassau (cookie), a chocolate peanut butter sandwich cookie from Pepperidge Farm
Nassau grouper, an endangered species of fish
Nassau Hall, the oldest building at Princeton University, and a meeting place for the USA's Second Continental Congress
Nassau Stakes, a horse race in the United Kingdom
Nassau Stakes (Canada), a horse race in Canada
Nassau (Staten Island Railway station), a station in the United States
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, an ice hockey arena in Uniondale, New York, USA
Nassau Weekly, a student newspaper of Princeton University

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Nassau" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Esperanto, French, Galician, Indonesian, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Swedish, Volapük.

Translation(s) in other languages: Spanish: Nassau (desambiguación), Croatian: Nassau (razdvojba), Italian: Nassau (disambigua), Georgian: ნასაუ, Portuguese: Nassau (desambiguação), Romanian: Nassau (dezambiguizare), Russian: Нассау, Finnish: Nassau (täsmennyssivu), Ukrainian: Нассау, Chinese: 拿騷.


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