Nassau

**Nassau** birni ne kuma birni mafi girma na Bahamas . Kuma yana da yawan jama'a 274,400 a shekarar kidaya ta 2016, ko kuma ana iya cewa sama da kashi 70% na dukan jama'ar Bahamas, Nassau ana kiran shi a matsayin babban birni, yana mamaye duk sauran garuruwan ƙasar.  Ita ce cibiyar kasuwanci, ilimi, doka, gudanarwa, da kuma kafofin watsa labarai na kasar. 

Filin jirgin saman Lynden Pindling, babban filin jirgin sama na Bahamas, yana kusan Kilomita 16 (da mita 9.9) yamma da tsakiyar birnin Nassau, kuma yana da jiragen yau da kullun zuwa manyan biranen Kanada, Caribbean, Ingila da Amurka . Birnin yana kan tsibirin New Providence .

Nassau wuri ne na Majalisar Dokoki da sassan shari'a daban-daban kuma an yi la'akari da shi a matsayin tungar 'yan fashin teku a tarihi.  An sanya sunan birnin don girmama William III na Ingila, Yariman Orange-Nassau.

## Tarihi
Garin da za a kira Nassau an kafa shi ne a cikin shekara ta 1670 ta hannun wasu ’yan Burtaniya waɗanda suka kawo mazauna Burtaniya tare da su zuwa New Providence. Sun gina katanga, suka sanya masa suna **Charles Town** don girmama Sarki Charles II na Ingila.  A wannan lokacin ana yawan yaƙe-yaƙe tare da Mutanen Espanya, kuma an yi amfani da Charles Town a matsayin tushe don keɓancewa da su. A cikin 1684 an kona garin kurmus a lokacin Raid a Charles Town . An sake gina shi a cikin 1695 a ƙarƙashin Gwamna Nicholas Trott kuma aka sake masa suna Nassau don girmama William na Orange, wanda ke cikin reshe na House of Nassau . William ya kasance dan wasan Dutch ( *stadhouder* a cikin Yaren mutanen Holland), kuma, daga 1689, Williamnbsp;III, Sarkin Ingila, Scotland da Ireland. Sunan Nassau a ƙarshe ya samo asali ne daga garin Nassau na Jamus. 

Rashin gwamnoni masu tasiri bayan Trott, Nassau ya fada cikin mawuyacin hali. A shekarar 1703 sojojin kawance na Spain da Faransa sun mamaye Nassau a takaice . Bugu da ƙari, Nassau ya sha wahala sosai a lokacin Yaƙin Mutanen Espanya kuma ya shaida hare-haren Mutanen Espanya a shekarar 1703, 1704 da 1706. Daga 1703 zuwa 1718 babu wani halaltaccen gwamna a yankin. Thomas Walker shi ne babban jami'in da ya rage na tsibirin kuma ko da yake shaida ba ta da yawa, amma ya nuna yana aiki a matsayin mataimakin gwamna a lokacin da Benjamin Hornigold ya zo a shekarar 1713. A wannan lokacin, Bahamas da ba a daɗe ba ya zama mafakar 'yan fashi da ake kira **New Providence** . Gwamnan Bermuda ya bayyana cewa akwai sama da ‘yan fashin teku 1,000 a Nassau kuma sun zarce mazauna garin dari kacal. Sun shelanta Nassau a matsayin jamhuriyar 'yan fashin teku, tare da sanin yanayin tsibiri mai wadata inda ta ba da 'ya'yan itace, nama da ruwa da yalwar kariya a cikin magudanar ruwa. Tashar jiragen ruwa ta Nassau an kera ta ne don tsaro kuma tana iya ɗaukar jiragen ruwa kusan 500, ko da yake ba ta da zurfi sosai don karɓar manyan jiragen yaƙi. Benjamin Hornigold, tare da babban abokin hamayyarsa Henry Jennings, sun zama mai mulkin da ba na hukuma ba na jamhuriyar 'yan fashin teku ta gaskiya wacce ta yi maraba da kungiyar Flying Gang mai cin gashin kanta. Sauran 'yan fashin da suka yi amfani da Nassau a matsayin tushensu sun hada da Charles Vane, Thomas Barrow (wanda ya ayyana kansa "Gwamnan New Providence"),  Calico Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, da kuma Edward Teach, wanda aka fi sani da " Blackbeard ". ". 


File:Nassau_Harbor_(2005).jpg|Nassau Harbor
File:Watertower.JPG|Hasumiyar Watertower
File:Bierstadt_Albert_Street_in_Nassau.jpg|Titin Nassau, 1877-1878
File:Nassau,_Bahamas_welcome_gateway.JPG|Nassau, Bahamas welcome gateway

## Manazarta