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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
Jamaica
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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