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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

Cook Islands

Germany

  • Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, a town founded in AD 915
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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

Taiwan

United States

People

Nobles

Surname

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

People with the given name

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 shipname for multiple ships
  • Nassau (steamboat), 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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