Nassau

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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
  • 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. It was a member of Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine until 1813 and the German Confederation after 1815.
  • 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 (although all provinces had been de facto dissolved by 1933 so in practice it existed in name only).
  • Nassau Castle, the 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 (disambiguation)
  • 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 Bay, Texas
• Nassau County, Florida
• Nassau Fjord, a fjord in Prince William Sound, Alaska
• Nassau Village-Ratliff, Florida
• Nassau Street (Manhattan), New York City
• Nassau Street (Princeton), New Jersey

People

Nobles

• House of Nassau, a European aristocratic dynasty
  • House of Orange-Nassau, a noble dynasty originally from Germany and at present the monarchs of the Kingdom of 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 originally from Germany and at present the monarchs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
• Adolf of Nassau (disambiguation)
• Adolph of Nassau-Weilburg (disambiguation)
• Maria of Nassau (disambiguation)
• William of Nassau (disambiguation)

People with the given name

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

Art, entertainment, and media

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

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
• 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

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, United States
• Nassau Hall, Princeton University, New Jersey, United States
• Nassau grouper, an endangered species of fish

See also

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