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	NASSAU - LoveToKnow Article on NASSAU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nassau is one of the most thickly wooded regions in Germany, about 42% of its surface being occupied by forests, which yield good timber and harbour large quantities of game.
		Wiesbaden, with 100,955 inhabitants, is the capital of the government district as it was of the duchy.
		Adolph of Nassau, a son of Walram, the founder of the elder lineof the house of Nassau, became German king in 1292, but was defeated and slain by his rival, Albert of Austria, in 1298.
	13.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NA/NASSAU.htm (1471 words)

	Nassau, former duchy, Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1806, Nassau, which had received some territorial additions, joined the Confederation of the Rhine and was raised to a duchy.
		Nassau was then united with the former Electoral Hesse to form the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.
		Duke Adolf of Nassau, however, succeeded in 1890 to the grand duchy of Luxembourg, where his descendants continue to rule.
	www.bartleby.com /65/na/NassauGer.html (425 words)

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		Nassau Nassaunä´sou, former duchy, W central Germany, situated N and E of the Main and Rhine rivers.
		Brabant, duchy of Brabant, duchy of, former duchy, divided between Belgium (Brabant and Antwerp provs.) and the Netherlands (North Brabant prov.).
		Cleves, duchy of Cleves, duchy of, former state, W Germany, on both sides of the lower Rhine, bordering on the Netherlands.
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		John Maurice of Nassau John Maurice of Nassau, 1604-79, Dutch general and colonial administrator, a prince of the house of Nassau-Siegen; grandnephew of William the Silent.
		Moscow, grand duchy of Moscow or Muscovy, grand duchy of, state existing in W central Russia from the late 14th to mid-16th cent., with the city of Moscow as its nucleus.
		Maurice of Nassau Maurice of Nassaumôr´Ĭs, năs´ô, 1567-1625, prince of Orange (1618-25); son of William the Silent by Anne of Saxony.
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	Encyclopedia article: Nassau County, Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It was named for the Duchy of Nassau (additional info and facts about Duchy of Nassau) in Germany (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990).
		Nassau County is governed by the five-member Nassau County Board of County Commissioners, who are elected to four-year terms by the voters.
		Nassau County's economy is very diverse, ranging from agricultural activity (mostly in the form of tree farms) in the west and central areas, to a variety of activities closer to Amelia Island.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/N/Na/Nassau_County,_Florida.htm (1590 words)

	Nassau (duchy) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nassau was a German state within the Holy Roman Empire.
		The castle of Nassau was built in 1125, and since 1160 the county was named after the castle.
		In 1255 Nassau was divided for the first time.
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	Encyclopedia: Nassau (duchy)
		Burg Nassau The ruins of Burg Nassau (en: Nassau Castle) are a typical example of a summit-castle, rising near the town of the same name Nassau on a rock cone 120 meters over the Lahn river in the German Land (State) of Rhineland-Palatinate.
		Nassau was founded by the British in the mid-17th century as Charles Towne, but it was renamed to Nassau after William III of Orange-Nassau in 1695.
		Nassau was subjected to numerous attempted invasions by the Spanish during the late 18th century, and in 1776 it was captured and briefly held by American revolutionaries.
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	Nassau (duchy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The town of Nassau was founded in 915.
		The castle of Nassau was built in 1125, and since 1160 the county was named after the town where the castle was located.
		Today, all Houses of Nassau are extinct in their original male line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nassau_(duchy) (171 words)

	Duchy of Nassau 1806-1866 (Prussia, Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Former sovereign Duchy Herzogtum of the Deutsche Bund [German Confederation], 4708 km² with 465,639 inhabitants (in 1865).
		During 1816-1866 all Nassau lands were a single Duchy, except of course the Netherlands, who are ruled by another branch of the Nassau family.
		Duke Adolf lost his duchy to Prussia in 1866 but inherited Luxemburg in 1890 when king William III of the Netherlands died and the throne of the Netherlands went to his daughter Wilhelmina.
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	Nassau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burg Nassau: "Nassau Castle", ancestral seat of the House of Nassau
		Nassau Stakes: a horse race in the UK Nassau Sound: a body of water in the U.S. state of Florida
		Nassau (bet): a type of bet between golfers that is essentially three separate bets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nassau (370 words)

	NASSAU - Online Information article about NASSAU
		capital of the government district as it was of the duchy.
		October 1866 Nassau was formally incorporated with the kingdom of Prussia.
		Menzel, Geschichte von Nassau (Wiesbaden, 1865—1889) ; the Codex diplomaticus nassoicus, edited by K. Menzel and W. Sauer (1885—188;); and the Annalen des Vereins fiir nassauische Altertumskunde and Geschichtsforschung (1827 fol.).
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	Royal Travel Tips: Nassau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nassau used to be an independent county, and after 1806 a Duchy.
		Count Walram von Nassau was the ancestor of the branche of the later grand dukes of Luxembourg, count Otto von Nassau was the ancestor of the branche of the present royal family of the Netherlands.
		Nassau became a part of Prussia in 1866, later a part of Germany, which it still is.
	www.nettyroyal.nl /nassau.html (1978 words)

	Succession in Nassau and Luxemburg
		Emperor Sigismund died without male heirs and the duchy passed by inheritance to the dukes of Burgundy; it then followed the fate of the Low Countries, passing in 1480 to the Habsburgs, in 1555 to the Spanish branch and in 1713 to the Austrian branch.
		The pact is a convention between the branches of the house of Nassau, that is, all agnates (males and females descended in male line) of the 13th c.
		The death of the last male Nassau in 1912 resulted in the application of article 42, whereby the Nassau estates passed to the eldest daughter of the last male.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/royalty/nassau.htm (7107 words)

	Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The male-line descendants of HRH Grand Duchess Charlotte hold the titles Prince(ss) of Luxembourg, Prince(ss) of Nassau, and Prince(ss) of Bourbon-Parma (from her husband, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma) with the style of His/Her Royal Highness (coming from their status as Prince(sse)s of Bourbon-Parma).
		His children were styled as Count(esse)s of Nassau until given the title HRH Prince(ss) of Nassau on November 24, 2004.
		Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Justine of Nassau, eldest child and only daughter of Prince Robert, was born on March 20 1995.
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Grand_Duke_of_Luxembourg (1444 words)

	Kingdoms of Europe - Nassau
		Nassau emerged from Franconia, which fragmented in the thirteenth century.
		With the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, Napoleon I forms his Confederation of the Rhine and elevates the county to become the Duchy of Nassau.
		The Duchy of Nassau is forcibly absorbed by Prussia.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/FranceNassau.htm (249 words)

	Historical Flags (Hesse, Germany)
		The Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt remained independent, and was thereafter identified simply as Hesse.
		Enfeoffed first to the dukes of Franconia, later to the counts of Thuringia, Hesse emerged in 1247 as a landgraviate immediately subject to the emperor under a branch of the house of Brabant.
		Electoral Hesse, the free city of Frankfurt, and Nassau, having all three sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866), were annexed by Prussia and were merged (1868) in the province of Hesse-Nassau, of which Kassel became the capital.
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	dutch
		Henri was keen to promote the Grand Duchy's independence and guided the country through the crisis of 1867, when Emperor Napoleon III of France tried to acquire Luxembourg as an extension of his empire.
		In line with the requirements of the Nassau family pact of 1783, the Luxembourg throne could not be passed through the female line.
		The throne was inherited by Adolphe of Nassau, the exiled Duke of Nassau, thus severing the personal union between Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
	www.geocities.com /luxroyalty/dutch.html (502 words)

	Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches
		The county of Nassau was divided in 1255 ("prima divisio") by Walram and Otto, sons of Count Henry II the Rich.
		As the Stem Duchies formed, Thuringia was one of the first, but it had the smallest land area of any Duchy, soon became attached to Saxony (909), and did not play a major part in German politics.
		A younger son of Christian IX of Denmark became King of Greece as George I. King George's grandson is Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort of the Queen Elizabeth II of England.
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		Diedendorf was one of seven villages that were founded by the Huguenots in 1559 with permission of the Counts of Nassau.
		In 1629 the Grafschaft of Nassau-Sarrewerden was occupied by the Duchy of Lorraine.
		One of the oldest Reformed congregations at that time was in the city of Hornbach in the Duchy of Phalz-Zweibrucken, thirty miles north of Diedendorf.
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	Dossiers
		The Duchy of Luxembourg was given to William I and raised to the rank of Grand Duchy.
		Thus, when William III of the Netherlands died without leaving a male descendant, the Crown of the Grand Duchy passed to Duke Adolphe of Nassau, while the eldest daughter of William III, Wilhelmina, succeeded to her father's throne in the Netherlands, which was governed by a different order of succession from the Grand Duchy.
		Grand Duke Jean Grand Duke Jean, Duke of Nassau, Prince of Bourbon-Parma, was born at Berg Castle in Luxembourg on 5 January 1921.
	www.gouvernement.lu /dossiers/famille_grand_ducale/chregneuk/infobase/souverain.html (755 words)

	The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
		Titles: Until July 28th, 1987, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg was titled Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Duke of Nassau, Prince of Bourbon of Parme, Count palatine of the Rhine, Count of Sayn, Königstein, Katzenelnbogen and Diez, Viscount of Hammerstein, Lord of Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg and Eppstein.
		In 1795 it became a department of France and in 1815 it was promoted to a grand duchy as a part of the new Kingdom of the Netherlands.
		As the Salian law was in force in Luxembourg, after the death of King Willem III the throne of Luxemburg was given to Adolph Duke of Nassau, from the Walramian branch of the House of Nassau.
	www.nettyroyal.nl /luxemburg1.html (648 words)

	Minor German States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A Principality from 1576, and a Duchy from 1645, it was raised to fully sovereign status 1806-1810, under Napoleon.
		A County from 1100, a Duchy from 1417.
		A County from 1143, a Margraviate from 1336, a Duchy from 1356.
	www.hostkingdom.net /germinor.html (1289 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - WIESBADEN: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		German town in the province of Hesse-Nassau; capital of the former duchy of Nassau.
		In the public peace ("Landfrieden") promulgated in 1265 by Archbishop Wernher of Mayence, together with the lords of Epstein, Falkenstein, and others, an allusion is found to "certain undisciplined persons who have arisen against the Jews contrary to God's command," and who are to be punished as disturbers of the peace.
		It is not said, however, that such disturbances actually occurred in any place in the duchy.
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	Nassau County Courthouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nassau County, established in 1824, is named for the Nassau River which separates it from neighboring Duval County.
		This river was in turn named for the Duchy of Nassau in present-day Germany (as was the Bahamian capital).
		Nassau County residents attended court in Jacksonville until the legislature designated “Nassau Court House” as the county seat.
	www.jud10.org /Courthouses/Nassau/nassau.htm (204 words)

	Nassau County, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - TESTVERSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nassau County is a county located in the state of Florida.
		It was named for the Duchy of Nassau in Germany.
		The main environmental and agricultural body is the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District, which works closely with other area agencies.
	www.wissen-im-web.net /wiki/Nassau_County,_Florida (652 words)

	Nassau on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		(nä´sou), former duchy, W central Germany, situated N and E of the Main and Rhine rivers.
		Nassau and Suffolk County outlook for years ahead.
		Nassau County revolt: The Suozzi team realized early on that while its message may, on paper, test better than DiNapoli's, the distinctions it drew between the candidates would likely blur in a real campaign...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NassauG1er.asp (889 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty--Luxemburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Luxemberg was considered to be of such stretegic importance, however, that the status of the Duchy was the subject of a major international congress in 1867.
		Adolphe von Nassau, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, was born in 1817.
		William von Nassau, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, was born in 1852.
	histclo.hispeed.com /royal/lux/royal-lux.htm (2334 words)

	Nassau (state) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Nassau (state) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		One of those counties was Nassau-Dillenburg, from where the House of Orange-Nassau originated.
		This page was last modified 21:02, 31 May 2005.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Duchy_of_Nassau (146 words)

	Walramian Nassau. (from Nassau) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Walram II's son, Adolf of Nassau, was the German king from 1292 to 1298.
		In 1801 Napoleonic France acquired the Walramians' lands west of the Rhine; in 1803 the branches of Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Usingen reunited and received considerable additions of territory in compensation from France.
		Walramian Nassau entered Napoleon I's Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, and a cession of territory to the grand duchy of Berg that year was balanced by additions, mainly from Ottonian Nassau.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-5132 (180 words)

	Nassau - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		) A region and former duchy of central Germany north and east of the Main and Rhine rivers.
		The region became a duchy in 1806 and was absorbed by Prussia in 1866.
		The capital and largest city of the Bahamas, on the northeast coast of New Providence Island in the Atlantic Ocean east of Miami, Florida.
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