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Line 126: The [[Dutch Republic\|Dutch]] were the first Europeans to settle Long Island's western edge, which was then largely inhabited by the [[Lenape]], an Algonquian-speaking [[Native Americans in the United States\|American Indian]] tribe often referred to in European documents by a variation of the place name "[[Canarsie]]". Bands were associated with place names, but the colonists thought their names represented different tribes. The ''Breuckelen'' settlement was named after [[Breukelen]] in the [[Netherlands]]; it was part of [[New Netherland]]. The [[Dutch West India Company]] lost little time in chartering the six original parishes (listed here by their later English town names):<ref>[http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Town/Bushwick/index.html ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle''] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629011359/http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Town/Bushwick/index.html \|date=June 29, 2014 }}, "Map of six townships"</ref> [[Gravesend, Brooklyn\|Gravesend]]: in 1645, settled under Dutch patent by English followers of [[Anabaptist]] [[Deborah Moody]], named for [['s-Gravenzande]], Netherlands, or [[Gravesend]], England; [[Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn\|Brooklyn Heights]]: chartered as ''Breuckelen'' in 1646, after the town now spelled [[Breukelen]], [[Netherlands]]. Breuckelen was along Fulton Street (now Fulton Mall) between Hoyt Street and Smith Street (according to H. Stiles and P. Ross). Brooklyn Heights, or Clover Hill, is where the village of Brooklyn was founded in 1816; [[Flatlands, Brooklyn\|Flatlands]]: chartered as ''Nieuw [[Amersfoort]]'' in 1647; [[Flatbush, Brooklyn\|Flatbush]]: chartered as ''[[Midwood, Brooklyn\|Midwout]]'' in 1652; Line 1,089: ==Partnerships with districts of foreign cities== {{See also\|New York City#Sister cities}} * [[Anzio\|Anzio, Lazio]], [[Italy]] (since 1990) * [[Huế]], [[Vietnam]] * [[Gdynia]], [[Poland]] (since 1991)<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.gdynia.pl/eng/european/city/twin/cities/4908_38739.html \|title=Gdynia: Twin Cities \|publisher=Gdynia.pl \|archive-date=January 21, 2016 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121103655/http://www.gdynia.pl/eng/european/city/twin/cities/4908_38739.html }}</ref> * [[Beşiktaş\|Beşiktaş, Istanbul Province]], [[Turkey]] (since 2005)<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/Pages/OIB/OIB_05/may.htm \|title=Brooklyn Borough President \|publisher=Brooklyn-usa.org \|access-date=October 24, 2010 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525135822/http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/Pages/OIB/OIB_05/may.htm \|archive-date=May 25, 2011 }}</ref> * [[Leopoldstadt\|Leopoldstadt, Vienna]], [[Austria]] (since 2007)<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/Press/2007/mar05.htm \|title=BP ''(Borough Pres.)'' Markowitz joins Vienna deputy mayor to announce new "district partnership" (March 05) \|publisher=Brooklyn-usa.org \|date=March 5, 2007 \|access-date=October 24, 2010 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525135920/http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/Press/2007/mar05.htm \|archive-date=May 25, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.wieninternational.at/de/node/3254 \|title=Vienna in New York 2007 \|publisher=Wieninternational.at \|date=March 15, 2007 \|access-date=October 24, 2010 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706100435/http://www.wieninternational.at/de/node/3254 \|archive-date=July 6, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.wieninternational.at/en/node/4478 \|title=Brooklyn in Leopoldstadt \|date=July 5, 2007\|publisher=Wieninternational.at \|access-date=October 24, 2010 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914015209/http://www.wieninternational.at/en/node/4478 \|archive-date=September 14, 2010 }}</ref> * [[London Borough of Lambeth]], [[United Kingdom]]<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.icfj.org/our-work/beyond-capitals-uk \|title=International Center for Journalists \|access-date=September 9, 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910201256/http://www.icfj.org/our-work/beyond-capitals-uk \|archive-date=September 10, 2014 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Bnei Brak]], [[Israel]]<ref>{{cite web\| url = http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/38/31_38_mm_marty_in_israel.html\| website= The Brooklyn Paper\| date = September 19, 2008\|title = Marty is in Israel! Beep says he's there for tourism business, not sightseeing\|first = Mike\|last= McLaughlin}}</ref> * [[Konak, İzmir]], Turkey (since 2010)<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/pdf/MartyWinter2010_WEBsmall.pdf\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213054734/http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/pdf/MartyWinter2010_WEBsmall.pdf\|url-status=dead\|title=Brooklyn Borough President\|archive-date=December 13, 2010}}</ref> * [[Chaoyang District, Beijing]], China (since 2014)<ref name="Brooklyn Borough President">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/press/2014/may22_MA.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910215719/http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/press/2014/may22_MA.htm\|url-status=dead\|title=Brooklyn Borough President\|archive-date=September 10, 2014}}</ref>

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