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=== Etymology === "Hannover" (with a double n, as it was spelled in the 1761 charter and in its German original form as well) was named either after a local parish in [[Sprague, Connecticut]], or after the German [[House of Hanover]] (which originated in 1635 as a [[cadet branch]] of the House of [[Brunswick-Lüneburg]] when [[George, Duke of Brunswick]] moved to the city of [[Hannover]])<ref name="mlrö22">{{cite web |title=Chronik der Stadt Hannover von den Anfängen bis 1988 – Tabellarische Darstellung |trans-title=History of the City of Hannover from the Beginnings to 1988 – Tabulated Layout |work=Stadtchronik Hannover |trans-work=History of the City of Hannover |volume=1: 18 000 v. Chr. bis 1988 |editor1-first=Klaus |editor1-last=Mlynek |editor1-link=Klaus Mlynek |editor2-first=Waldemar R. |editor2-last=Röhrbein |editor2-link=Waldemar R. Röhrbein |language=de |publisher=Stadtarchiv Hannover |url=https://www.hannover.de/content/download/742032/file/Chronik%201%20bis%201988.pdf |access-date=June 20, 2023}}</ref>{{rp|25}} in honor of the reigning British-Hanoverian king, [[George III]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hanovernh.org/about |title=About the Town of Hanover |publisher=www.hanovernh.org |access-date=February 8, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528152115/http://www.hanovernh.org/about |archive-date=May 28, 2010 }}</ref> Today, the original Hannover is the capital and largest city of [[Lower Saxony]], the second-largest state in [[Germany]]. The name of the German city is thought to derive from the [[Low German]] form of what is "{{lang|de|hohes Ufer|italic=unset}}" in German, which translates into "high shore" in English, and describes the high shore of the [[Leine]] river at the site, and at the time, of the first known settlement (near today's street {{ill |Am Hohen Ufer |de |lt=At the High Shore|v=sup}}). While it is likely that the name "Dresden" derived from [[Dresden]] in Germany, it has also been suggested that it could derive directly from the old [[Sorbian languages|Sorbian]] word ''drezg'' ("forest") or ''Drezd'ane'', for an inhabitant of a forest.<ref>The settlers in the riverside forest, an appellation fully compatible with that of the early inhabitants of the Hanover Plain.</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1997/HoefnagelClose.html| title=Dresden: What Is in the Name| author=Dick Hoefnagel and Virginia L. Close| access-date=October 25, 2008}}</ref>
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