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
- Nassau Street, Toronto
Cook Islands[]
- Nassau (Cook Islands), one of the Northern 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[]
- 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
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 dynastyfrom 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
- , 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)
Categories:
- Disambiguation pages
- Place name disambiguation pages
- Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists
- Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists
- Ship disambiguation pages