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[[File:Flagge Herzogtum Nassau (1806-1866).svg|thumb|Flag of the [[Duchy of Nassau]], an independent country until 1866]]
[[File:Nassau Arms.svg|thumb|Arms of Nassau: ''Azure, billetty a lion rampant with a closed crown Or, armed and langued gules.'']]
[[File:St.Goarshausen Loreley Burg Katz 2016-03-27-17-08-51.jpg|thumb|[[St. Goarshausen]], with [[Katz Castle]] and the [[Loreley]] rock]]

'''Nassau''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|æ|s|ɔː}} {{respell|NASS|aw}}, <small>also</small> {{IPAc-en|UK|ˈ|n|æ|s|aʊ}} {{respell|NASS|ow}}, {{IPAc-en|US|ˈ|n|ɑː|s|aʊ}} {{respell|NAHSS|ow}}, {{IPA|de|ˈnasaʊ|lang|de-Nassau.ogg}}) is a geographical, historical and cultural region in today's [[Rhineland-Palatinate]] and [[Hesse]] in western [[Germany]]. Named for the town of [[Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate|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 (Verbandsgemeinde)|Nassau collective municipality]], the area surrounding the town of Nassau, which has been merged into [[Bad Ems-Nassau]] collective municipality.

==Overview==
Nassau is located on the German-Dutch [[Orange Route]], and has strong historical and cultural ties to nearby [[Luxembourg]] and historical ties to the [[Netherlands]], which were both ruled by the House of Nassau and are still ruled by its descendants. "Duke of Nassau" is still used as the secondary title ([[title of pretense|of pretense]]) by the [[Grand Duke of Luxembourg]]. The [[coat of arms of the Netherlands]] used the Nassau arms with additions from the [[Dutch Republic Lion]], the [[coat of arms of Luxembourg#Arms of the monarch|coat of arms of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg]] incorporates the Nassau arms in its second hand third field,  the coat of arms of [[Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate]] depictes the Nassau arms in its upper half field, and the seal of [[Nassau County, New York]] adopted the Nassau arms in the middle. The Nassau name is also part of the name of the Dutch royal family, [[House of Orange-Nassau|Orange-Nassau]], and its secondary titles of Prince or Princess of Orange-Nassau.

The Nassau cultural identity can be seen in the name of the regional newspaper ''[[Nassauische Neue Presse]]'' and the savings bank {{illm|Nassauische Sparkasse|de|Nassauische Sparkasse}}.

Both [[Nassau County, Florida]] and [[Nassau County, New York]], as well as the city of [[Nassau, Bahamas]] are named for the region in Germany.

==Cities and towns==
[[File:Duchy of Nassau.png|thumb|The Duchy of Nassau]]

The most important cities and towns of Nassau, and of the former Duchy of Nassau, are:
*[[Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate|Nassau]]
*[[Braubach]]
*[[Nastätten]]
*[[St. Goarshausen]]
*[[Bad Schwalbach|Schwalbach]]
*[[Wehen]]
*[[Idstein]]
*[[Wiesbaden]]
*[[Eltville]]
*[[Rüdesheim am Rhein|Rüdesheim]]
*[[Höchst im Odenwald|Höchst]]
*[[Königstein im Taunus|Königstein]]
*[[Usingen]]
*[[Weilburg]]
*[[Diez, Germany|Diez]]
*[[Limburg an der Lahn|Limburg]]
*[[Hadamar]]
*[[Montabaur]]
*[[Westerburg]]
*[[Rennerod]]
*[[Marienberg]]
*[[Hachenburg]]
*[[Herborn (Hesse)|Herborn]]
*[[Dillenburg]]

==Literature==
*''Herzogtum Nassau 1806–1866. Politik&nbsp;– Wirtschaft&nbsp;– Kultur'', Historische Kommission für Nassau, Wiesbaden 1981, {{ISBN|3-922244-46-7}}

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[[Category:Regions of Rhineland-Palatinate]]
[[Category:Regions of Hesse]]