Los Angeles (in English: Los Angeles), and (in Spanish: Los Ángeles), written and called the LA for short, is the largest city in the state of California and is located south west of the state on the Pacific coast, USA. It is the second most U.S. cities populous city after New York. Los Angeles is the seat of the province bearing the same name and has an area of 1290.6 km2 (498.3 square miles). The city is one of the most important cultural centers, economic, and scientific in the United States.
Name of the city taken from the Spanish language, a sense of "angels" and this name is an abbreviation for the name of the Spanish "Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula" and literally means "Village of Our Lady Queen of Angels River Borcillonkkola" [1]. Joined Los Angeles as a city to the state of California in April 4, 1850, the largest cities of Los Angeles County. Based on official statistics of the population of the United States of America in 2000, the population of Los Angeles, 3.69 million people, although the statistical estimates carried out in July 1, 2004 showed that the number of population 3.85 million, and the last official census conducted in 2008 indicated that the residents of "Los Angeles" was 3833995 after it was 11,500 people in 1887 [2]. It is worth mentioning that the city hosted the Olympics twice, in 1932 and 1984 as it hosted the final of the 1994 World Cup.
Los Angeles Beach
Accommodation Bay of Los Angeles for thousands of years all the tribes of Altongfa and Alichomac, before being discovered by Europeans year 1542 when the Portuguese João Rodrigues Kaprelo first exploration of the area, then settled in the Spanish region after a number of missionaries from the South endemism area after doing two tasks Tbshiratin in 1771 and 1797 , and thus founded the village of "Los Angeles" 1781 census 40 people (8 families) [3], and after the occupation of California by Mexico, newly independent from Spain, then in 1822 ceded it in 1848 after its defeat in the war against the United States of America, then became a city Los Angeles, the capital of the province of the same name in 1850 was not then only a small village as various villages in the American West contains several houses, cafes, bars, games rooms and unpaved roads.
And in 1876 built the railway that linked the city with other cities of California were linked to the Pacific Coast city in 1885. Has increased the economic growth of the city and urban time because of the spread of citrus, especially oranges has increased the population of 2300 in 1860 to 50,000 in 1890 and then to 100,000 in 1900. Then resulted in the discovery of an oil well near the city's early twentieth century to a new wave of migration to the city. Thus, the city expanded rapidly and the expansion of construction adjacent to the Mazda. In the same period flourished industries, particularly the aircraft industry thanks to two Douglas and Lockheed, and turned to the cinema industry and its thriving neighborhood of Hollywood. And continued expansion in the urban city to be reached to the San Fernando Valley shortly after World War II
Long live the city in 1992, bloody clashes on the back of the issue of Rodney King, the driver's black, who was assaulted by four white men from the Los Angeles Police, has been portrayed by that process video and been prosecuted defendants in the case in a court of Valley Simi under great pressure and heavy media coverage [5] and when the accused acquitted by the court majority white, went off a wave of anger among blacks in the city, especially in the impoverished neighborhood of South Central. And led to ethnic clashes killed 55 people and injured 2000 [6] and losses of billions of dollars and are controlling the riot, but when you enter the National Guard, which did not know the United States since the sixties of the twentieth century.
And in 1994 A 6.6 earthquake struck the city leading to human and material losses [7] in Northridge.
Emerged several attempts to separate the areas of Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley from the city, most recently in 2002 [8] without success. Today, the immigration and integration of minorities has increased demographic and urban re-
Now, with some sporadic images from everywhere in the city of Los Angeles
But now, with some wonderful hotels in the city's picturesque
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