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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Nassau

capital of the Bahamas, from a site name attested from 1690s, in honor of King William III of England (1650-1702), of the House of Orange-Nassau, from the duchy of Nassau in western Germany, named for a village in the Lahn valley, from Old High German nass "wet." Related: Nassauvian.

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Nassau, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 1161
Housing Units (2000): 529
Land area (2000): 0.680873 sq. miles (1.763453 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.680873 sq. miles (1.763453 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49506
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.515208 N, 73.611126 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 12123
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Nassau, NY
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Nassau, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 83
Housing Units (2000): 47
Land area (2000): 0.158168 sq. miles (0.409652 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.158168 sq. miles (0.409652 sq. km)
FIPS code: 45016
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 45.067751 N, 96.441506 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56272
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Nassau -- U.S. County in New York
Population (2000): 1334544
Housing Units (2000): 458151
Land area (2000): 286.692209 sq. miles (742.529382 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 166.391225 sq. miles (430.951276 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 453.083434 sq. miles (1173.480658 sq. km)
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 40.715949 N, 73.602538 W
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Nassau, NY
Nassau County
Nassau County, NY
Nassau -- U.S. County in Florida
Population (2000): 57663
Housing Units (2000): 25917
Land area (2000): 651.551622 sq. miles (1687.510883 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 74.304939 sq. miles (192.448901 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 725.856561 sq. miles (1879.959784 sq. km)
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 30.623401 N, 81.704762 W
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Nassau, FL
Nassau County
Nassau County, FL
Wikipedia
Nassau

Nassau is principally the name of the German town Nassau, which has given its name to many other places and entities, notably including the royal House of Nassau, the former, sovereign Duchy of Nassau (in modern-day Germany), Nassau County, New York, and the city of Nassau, Bahamas.

Nassau may refer to:

Nassau (crater)

Nassau is a lunar impact crater on the Moon's far side. It abuts against the northeastern rim of the figure-8-shaped crater Van de Graaff. To the southeast of Nassau lies the crater Leeuwenhoek, and to the east is Orlov.

Nassau has a somewhat eroded crater rim, with small craters lying across the edge along the eastern, northwestern and southwestern sides. Along the southwestern inner wall, where the crater joins Van de Graaff, a ridge of material extends northward part way into the interior floor. The bottom of the crater is nearly level, but is marked by several small craterlets. The most notable of these interior craters lies near the midpoint.

Nassau (Cook Islands)

Nassau is an island in the Cook Islands.

Located 90 km south of Pukapuka, the small island (0.5 mi²/1.3 km²) of Nassau is just 9 metres (28 feet) above sea level, with an oval sandy cay on a coral reef foundation and is surrounded by a narrow reef flat. It is covered with palms, and is the only island of the Northern Group without a lagoon. The surrounding reef is 90 to 130 metres wide on all but the north side where it's narrower. The village is located in the north-west. Inland there are rich taro swamps and fruit groves, and offshore there is good fishing. It has a population of 71, according to the 2006 census, and a harbour was planned to be built in 2007, but construction had not started by then. In 2010 a small boat passage and mooring wharf had been dynamited out of the reef top, and a second phase was underway in December 2010. The evironnmental impact was small after the initial blasting

Nassau is governed by the Pukapuka Island Council. The Nassau Island Committee advises the Pukapuka Island Council on matters of Nassau Island.

Families live in thatched cottages called kikau. Elliot Smith, in the Cook Islands Companion (Pacific Publishing Company, Albany, California) describes Nassau as "a small garden of Eden".

The island was severely damaged in February, 2005 by Cyclone Percy. Recovery work to the islands infrastructure (Health Clinic, School, Powerhouse, Telecommunications Network and Meeting House) was completed with the kind assistance of NZAID and the Government of the Cook Islands in October of that same year, a major feat due to the remoteness of the island and infrequent shipping services. The Island now has a completely new school thanks to the NZAID Schools Refurbishment Programme, which is administered by the Cook Islands Investment Corporation.

Because there is no airport, access is limited to inter-island ship from Rarotonga, a voyage of three days or more, or from Pukapuka. The service is very infrequent. The only permanent link with the outside world is a satellite earth station built in just four days by engineers from Telecom Cook Islands and in 2004 it received its first telephone system.

Nassau (album)

Nassau, released in 1995, is the second album by The Sea and Cake.

Nassau (Staten Island Railway station)

Nassau is a Staten Island Railway station located roughly between the neighborhoods of Tottenville (to the south) and Charleston (to the north), in Staten Island, New York.

Nassau (bet)

The Nassau bet gets its name from the Nassau Country Club on Long Island, where the format was invented in the early 1900s by club captain John B. Coles Tappan. The game also is known as "2-2-2", and "Best Nines."

The Nassau is a type of bet in golf that is essentially three separate bets. Money is wagered on the best match play score in the front nine (holes 1–9), back nine (holes 10–18), and total 18 holes. The Nassau is one of golf's most classic and most popular wagers.

The amount of the bet is established -- often $2 or $5 -- for each nine with a third bet for the overall 18-hole match. Points are calculated by scoring each hole as a separate match. The player with the lowest score on a hole wins a point. If the scores tie for a hole, this results in a "push," or no points won or lost.

Nassau (Verbandsgemeinde)

Nassau is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Its seat is in Nassau.

The Verbandsgemeinde Nassau consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"):

  1. Attenhausen
  2. Dessighofen
  3. Dienethal
  4. Dornholzhausen
  5. Geisig
  6. Hömberg
  7. Lollschied
  8. Misselberg
  9. Nassau
  10. Obernhof

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  1. Oberwies
  2. Pohl
  3. Schweighausen
  4. Seelbach
  5. Singhofen
  6. Sulzbach
  7. Weinähr
  8. Winden
  9. Zimmerschied
Nassau (region)

Nassau is a geographical, historical and cultural region in today's Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in western Germany. Named for the town Nassau, it includes the territory of the Duchy of Nassau, a former sovereign country which existed until 1866. Occupied by Prussia and annexed into the Province of Hesse-Nassau in 1866, Nassau briefly became the name of a separate province, the Province of Nassau, in 1944. Much of the area is today part of the Nassau Nature Park. Nassau is also the name of the smaller Nassau collective municipality, the area surrounding the town of Nassau.

Usage examples of "nassau".

The calling in of aids, which are real fetes of labour, is known to be quite habitual in Westphalia, Hesse, and Nassau.

It was during this truce that the best-known events of Dutch history occurred--the Synod of Dort, the suppression of the Republicans and Arminians by Maurice of Nassau, when he put Olden Barnevelt to death, and compelled the most illustrious of all Dutchmen, Grotius, to make his escape packed in a box of books.

West India pirates was at New Providence Island in the Bahama Islands, occupied to-day by the flourishing town of Nassau, now the headquarters of those worthy descendants of the pirates, the bootleggers, who from the old port carry on their exciting and profitable smuggling of whisky into the United States.

Garcia off the Nassau that same day, first to Naples, then back to the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, just inside the Washington Beltway.

Le sang des princes de Nassau coule dans les veines de Guillaume de la Marck.

Chiefly of criminals known to be engaged in the stealing and smuggling of precious stones and metal known to have fomented, or attempted to foment, labour troubles in Nassau and Manzanillo, for ends suspected to be other than political.

He infused the will and the vigor that would keep the struggle against tyranny going until the goal of an independent Netherlands was won eighty years after Louis of Nassau had lighted the sparks.

During July and August 1943, while Halsey and Wilkinson slowly masticated the Central Solomons, MacArthur and Barbey had to be content with digesting their easily won gains in the Trobriand Islands and Nassau Bay.

He then led New York State troopers and Nassau County police on a high-speed, twenty-minute chase through the highways and byways of Long Island.

If he had any illusions about reinventing himself in a new environment he soon realized that Nassau, located just a few miles from his home, was not the place to do it.

Andrew and Celia were to leave at midday by Bahamas Airways from Rock Sound, connecting at Nassau with a northbound Pan Am flight which would get them to New York that night.

Vallandigham, not being a secessionist, merely desiring an honourable peace between North and South, which he had ably advocated, had gone on to Nassau, thence to Halifax, thence to Quebec: where he was.

Daughter of Claude Duke de Thouars, by Charlotte Brabantine de Nassau, daughter of William Prince of Orange, Charlotte de la Trémoille was likewise grand-daughter of Charlotte de Bourbon, of the royal house of Montpensier, and was therefore in every respect a suitable match for the heir of the great house of Stanley.

And I do, recounting the non-autopsy in Nassau, the balcony scene between Cleo and Loreal, my interview with Jay Burns, the burglaries of Jimmy's boat and my apartment, Jay's bizarre demise, Janet's disappearance under murky circumstances—and the discovery of Jimmy's hard drive hidden aboard the Rio Rio.

The eldest son of John of Barneveld was awaiting final trial and inevitable condemnation, his brother Stoutenburg was a fugitive, and their accomplices Korenwinder, van Dyk, the redoubtable Slatius and others were giving away under torture the details of the aborted conspiracy against the life of Maurice of Nassau, Stadtholder of Holland, Gelderland, Utrecht, and Overyssel, Captain and Admiral-General of the State, Prince of Orange, and virtual ruler of Protestant and republican Netherlands.