Gau or GAU may refer to:
People
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Gaugericus
Saint Gaugericus, in French Saint Géry (also known as Gorik, Gau; in Walloon, Djèri) ( 550 – August 11, 619) was a bishop of Cambrai, France.
Biography
He was born to Roman parents, Gaudentius and Austadiola, at ''Eposium'' (present C ...
(–626), Bishop of Cambrai
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Gau Ming-Ho (born 1949), Chinese mountaineer
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Franz Christian Gau
Franz Christian Gau (15 June 1790, in Cologne – January 1854, in Paris) was a French architect and archaeologist of German descent.
In 1809 he entered the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and in 1815 visited Italy and Sicily. In 1817 he went to ...
(1790–1854), German architect and archaeologist
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James Gau (born 1957), Papua New Guinean politician
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Michael Gau, Taiwanese political office-holder
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Susan Shur-Fen Gau (born 1962), Taiwanese psychiatrist
Places
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Gäu In the south German language (of the Alemannic-speaking area, or in Switzerland), a ''gäu'' landscape (''gäulandschaft'') refers to an area of open, level countryside. These regions typically have fertile soils resulting from depositions of loe ...
, name of the South German loess landscapes
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''Gau'' (territory), German term for a shire (regional administration)
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Administrative division of Nazi Germany
The ''Gaue'' (Singular: ''Gau'') were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
The ''Gaue'' were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional districts in Weimar Germany based on the territorial changes after the First ...
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Gäu (Baden-Württemberg)
The name Gäu (derived from the Roman ''pagus'' - a territory ruled by a lord - or from the Alemannic ''gou'' for '' Gau'' - a region) is used primarily today for a sparsely wooded cultural landscape type, that has evolved on the South German Sc ...
, a region in the southwest German state of Baden-Württemberg
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Gaū, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province
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Gäu District, district of Solothurn, Switzerland
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Gau Island
Gau (pronounced ) is an island belonging to Fiji's Lomaiviti archipelago. Located at 18.00° S and 179.30 °E, it covers an area of , with a total shoreline that measures long, making it the fifth largest island in the Fijian archipelago. Its m ...
, an island in Fiji
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Gau Airport
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Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport , also known as Guwahati International Airport and formerly as 'Borjhar Airport', is an international airport serving Guwahati, the largest city of North-East India in Assam, India, and is als ...
(IATA code: GAU), in Guwahati, Assam, India
Schools
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Georgetown American University, in Guyana
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Girne American University, in Northern Cyprus
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Gujarat Ayurved University, in India
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University of Göttingen
The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...
(German: '), in Germany
Other uses
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Gau (''Final Fantasy VI''), a character in ''Final Fantasy VI''
* GAU, a codon for the amino acid
aspartic acid
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Gouais blanc
Gouais blanc () or Weißer Heunisch () is a white grape variety that is seldom grown today but is important as the ancestor of many traditional French and German grape varieties. The name ''Gouais'' derives from the old French adjective ‘ ...
, a French wine grape
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Enfariné noir
Enfariné noir (or Gouais noir) is a red French wine grape variety that is grown predominantly in the Jura wine region of eastern France. Despite being known under the synonym ''Gouais noir'' in the Aisne, Aube, Marne, Meuse and Seine-et-Marne ...
, a French wine grape
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General Assistance Unemployable, a Washington state unemployment program
* Kondekor, a variety of the
Ollari language
The Ollari language (also known as Pottangi Ollar Gadaba, Ollar Gadaba, Ollaro, Hallari, Allar, Hollar Gadbas) is a Central Dravidian language. A closely related variety is Kondekor (also known as Gadaba, San Gadaba, Gadba, Sano, Kondekar, Kondk ...
with ISO 639-3 code ''gau''
* Gau, a
Cantonese vulgar word
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Glavnoe Artilleriyskoe Upravlenie'', a division of the Russian military that played a significant role in the
history of radar
The history of radar (where radar stands for radio detection and ranging) started with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed that radio waves were reflected by metallic objects. This possibility was suggested in Jame ...
See also
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Gau Mata
Due to the multiple benefits from cattle, there are varying beliefs about cattle in societies and religions. In some regions, especially most states of India, the slaughter of cattle is prohibited and their meat may be taboo.
Cattle are conside ...
, a sacred cow in Hinduism
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