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Hanau

American  
[hah-nou] / ˈhɑ naʊ /

noun

  1. a city in Hesse, central Germany.


Hanau British  
/ ˈhaːnau /

noun

  1. a city in central Germany, in Hesse east of Frankfurt am Main: a centre of the jewellery industry. Pop: 88 897 (2003 est)

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Following the deal, Vac would become a subsidiary of Energy Fuels and retain its branding and headquarters in Hanau, Germany, said Energy Fuels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

On the trading floor of precious-metals group Heraeus in Hanau, Germany, Dominik Sperzel is fielding calls from investors hunting for silver bars—ranging from the smallest, one troy ounce, to the largest, 15 kilos.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 1, 2026

Headquartered in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Gauss Fusion's roadmap sees the company opening fusion power plants by the beginning of the 2040s.

From BBC Oct. 12, 2023

“To put it plainly: Those who were murdered here in Hanau were not foreign,” said Claus Kaminsky, the city’s mayor.

From New York Times Feb. 21, 2020

Before the church, on the place-d'armes, were standing fifteen or twenty carts, full of wounded, arrived from Leipzig and Hanau.

From The Invasion of France in 1814 by Alexandre Chatrian

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