Editing Hoorn (section)

== International relations ==
=== Partner cities ===
Hoorn is [[Sister city|twinned]] with the following cities and municipalities:
* {{flagicon|Belgium}} [[Beersel]], Belgium (since 1968){{refn|group=lower-alpha|Initiated by Blokker and [[Lot, Belgium|Lot]], before they merged into their respective municipalities in the 1970s.}}
* {{flagicon|Czech Republic}} [[Příbram]], Czech Republic (since 1992)

=== Friendships ===
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Lewes, Delaware]], United States
: Lewes was the site of the first European settlement in [[Delaware]]: a [[whaling]] and trading post that Dutch settlers led by [[David Pieterszoon de Vries]] established in 1631 and named [[Zwaanendael]].<ref>Munroe, John A. ''Colonial Delaware: A History''. [[Millwood, New York]]: KTO Press; 1978; pp. 9–12.</ref> Upon their arrival in the [[Delaware Bay]], they entered a [[Kill (body of water)|kill]] which De Vries named "Hoornkill" after his hometown Hoorn.<ref>Vincent, Francis. [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AFJ8623.0001.001/132 ''A history of the state of Delaware'']. [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]: J. Campbell; 1870; pp. 130.</ref> Nowadays, the city's [[Zwaanendael Museum]] is located in a replica of the Statenlogement, the former city hall of Hoorn. Although Hoorn and Lewes have never officially been partner cities, there is close informal relationship between the two towns. Delegations from Hoorn and Lewes have visited each other's cities in light of Lewes's 375th and Hoorn's 650th anniversary in 2006 and 2007 respectively.<ref name="Hoorngids2007">{{cite web
 |title=Horinezen bij feestje in Lewes, USA
 |publisher=Hoorngids
 |url=https://www.hoorngids.nl/nw-7951-7-40390/nieuws/horinezen_bij_feestje_in_lewes_usa.html
 |date=26 April 2006
 |access-date=10 April 2018
 |language=nl}}</ref>

* {{flagicon|Malaysia}} [[Malacca City]], Malaysia (since 1989)
: In 1641, the Dutch conquered the [[Dutch Malacca|colony of Malacca]] from the [[Portugal|Portuguese]].<ref>Witt, Dennis de. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150925090623/http://www.dutchmalaysia.net/lang_en/press/article_200105_malacca_a_dutch_conquest_forgotten.html "Malacca, a Dutch conquest forgotten"]. ''The Dutch Courier'' (May 2001). Malaysian Dutch Descendants Project. Retrieved 10 April 2018.</ref> During the Dutch rule, the iconic [[Stadthuys]] was built – a replica of the first city hall of Hoorn, which was demolished in 1797.<ref>{{cite web
 |title=The Stadthuys of Malacca
 |publisher=Holland Focus
 |url=http://www.hollandfocus.com/v2/index.php/magazine/contributors/dennisdewitt/99-dennisdewitt/111-ddwstadthuys
 |date=4 July 2006
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925172431/http://www.hollandfocus.com/v2/index.php/magazine/contributors/dennisdewitt/99-dennisdewitt/111-ddwstadthuys
 |access-date=10 April 2018|archive-date=25 September 2009
 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Overbeek |first1=Henk |title='t Stadhuys van Hoorn – Hoornse Gevelstenen en andere Huistekens |url=https://www.oudhoorn.nl/bibliotheek/digitaal/hoornse_gevelstenen/hoornse_gevelstenen_207-208.php |website=Vereniging Oud Hoorn |access-date=23 November 2019}}</ref> Hoorn and Malacca became sister cities in 1989, but the partnership was officially ended in 2005.<ref name="Hoorngids2007" /> The cities still maintain an informal relationship as "friendship cities".