the capital and largest city of Lower Saxony, Germany · a special district (Kommunalverband besonderer Art) of Lower Saxony; full name Region Hannover · a former province of Prussia, in modern Germany
köken: From Middle Low German, from underlying an/up den hôen ôver (“on the high shore/bank”). Note that the area of central Hannover now called Am Hohen Ufer was banked up later and is not the at the origin of the city's name; it may rather have been called thus after the latter.