Nassau (Bahamas) - Place names:, House of Nassau, Other types of things:

25°05N 77°20W, pop (2000e) 14 400. Capital of the Bahamas on NE coast of New Providence I; frequented by pirates during the 18th-c and captured briefly by Americans in 1776; Fort Nassau (1697), Fort Charlotte (1787–94), and Fort Fincastle (1793) built to protect the city from Spanish invasion; airport; a popular winter tourist resort.

Nassau may mean the following:

Place names:

Nassau, Bahamas: City on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas, adjecent (via two bridges)to Paradise Island, home of Atlantis Paradise Island, resort and casinos, tourist destination, Bahamas government capital, Nassau, Germany: a town in Rhineland-Palatinate founded in 915 AD, after which all the following are named: Burg Nassau: "Nassau Castle", ancestral seat of the House of Nassau Duchy of Nassau: an extinct German duchy Hesse-Nassau: the Prussian province formed by annexation of that duchy Baarle-Nassau: a town in the southern Netherlands Nassau-Siegen: a historical territory in Germany Nassau, Minnesota: a city in the USA Nassau (village), New York: a village in the USA Nassau (town), New York: a town in the USA Nassau Bay, Texas: a town in the USA East Nassau, New York: a village in the USA Nassau County, Florida: a county in the USA Nassau County, New York: a county in the USA Nassau Village-Ratliff, Florida: a town in the USA Nassau (Cook Islands); one of the Northern Cook Islands

other Nassau Locations, not named from Nassau, Germany:

Nassau, Saxony: a village located in Ore Mountains - Germany, Saxony

House of Nassau

Of the House of Orange-Nassau, royal dynasty of the Netherlands:

Adolf of Nassau Johan Willem Friso of Orange-Nassau Louis of Nassau Maurice of Nassau Sophia of Nassau Willem of Nassau William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford

Of the branch of Nassau-Siegen

John Maurice of Nassau

Of the branch of Nassau-Weilburg, ultimately the grand ducal dynasty of Luxembourg:

Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Other:

Nassau William Senior

Other types of things:

Nassau Hall: the oldest building at Princeton University, and a meeting place for the USA's Second Continental Congress Evangelical Church of Hesse and Nassau;