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Nassau

Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate
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About Nassau

Nassau is a town located in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It lies on the lower course of the Lahn River, on the mouth of the MΓΌhlbach, between Limburg an der Lahn and the spa town of Bad Ems, and is located in the Nassau Nature Park, surrounded by the Westerwald to the north and the Taunus to the south. The town is on the German-Dutch holiday road, the Orange Route. As of 2021, it had a population of 4,592.

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That's why you've got two places, one's called Baal-Hertog and one's called Baal-Nassau. The Baal-Hertog comes from the Dutch word meaning duke. The Nassau comes from the house of Nassau, which was the aristocratic house which ruled Brabant at that time.

from 291: No Such Thing As A Quintruple-Cooked Chip, 2019-10-18 at 00:21:35 Β· read transcript

Other times Nassau came up

  1. There's an electrical socket. There's some broken handcuffs. There's a steering wheel. Broken handcuffs does not say to me, tough on crime. That says major cuts in crime. The Kenyan election is between Ahuru and Nassau. NASA. NASA? What, the American Space Agency? No, the National Super Alliance Party. It's President Ahuru Kaniata, and everyone else has kind of ganged together with a coalition to go against him.

    No Such Thing As Lord Cauldronhead, 2017-06-09 Β· listen

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Coordinates: 50.3158, 7.8022

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