Editing Nassau County, New York (section)

==Etymology==
The name of Nassau County originated from an old name for [[Long Island]], which was at one time named ''Nassau'', after the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] family of King [[William III of England]], the [[House of Nassau]],<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.britannica.com/place/Nassau-county-New-York| title = ''Encyclopaedia Britannica''| date = June 2, 2023| access-date = April 9, 2021| archive-date = April 25, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210425065835/https://www.britannica.com/place/Nassau-county-New-York| url-status = live}}</ref> itself named after the [[Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate|German town of Nassau]]. The county colors (orange and blue) are also the colors of the [[House of Orange-Nassau]].

Several alternate names had been considered for the county, including "Bryant", "[[Matinecock]]" (a village within the county currently has that name), "Norfolk" (presumably because of the proximity to Suffolk County), and "Sagamore".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nassaulandtrust.org/about-nassau-county | title=About Nassau County | access-date=November 11, 2012 | archive-date=February 16, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216153022/https://nassaulandtrust.org/about-nassau-county | url-status=live }}</ref> However, "Nassau" had the historical advantage of having at one time been the name of Long Island itself,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nextech.de/genealogy/purchase/e31.htm | title=Last will and testament of Thomas Powell Sen late of Bethpage now of Westbury in the limits of Hempstead in Queens County on Nassau Island in the Colony of New York | year=1719 | access-date=November 11, 2012 | archive-date=May 15, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515043943/http://www.nextech.de/genealogy/purchase/e31.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> and was the name most mentioned after the new county was proposed in 1875.<ref name=NYT1875-04-12>{{cite news | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1875/04/12/82028802.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127182425/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1875/04/12/82028802.pdf |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |url-status=live | title=Long Island | date=April 12, 1875 | newspaper=New York Times | access-date=November 11, 2012}}
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