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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]],
*[[Flatlands, Brooklyn|Flatlands]]: chartered as ''Nieuw [[Amersfoort]]'' in 1647;
*[[Flatbush, Brooklyn|Flatbush]]: chartered as ''[[Midwood, Brooklyn|Midwout]]'' in 1652;
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==Partnerships with districts of foreign cities==
{{See also|New York City#Sister cities}}
* [[Anzio|Anzio, Lazio]],
* [[Huế]],
* [[Gdynia]],
* [[Beşiktaş|Beşiktaş, Istanbul Province]],
* [[Leopoldstadt|Leopoldstadt, Vienna]],
* [[London Borough of Lambeth]],
* [[Bnei Brak]],
* [[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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