Cities called los angeles

Search Search. Audio menu. Learning English Broadcast. Previous Next. Words and Their Stories. July 23, Hear or download this story. Words and Their Stories: Nicknames for Chicago. Back to top. This partial list of city nicknames in California compiles the aliases, sobriquets, mottos and slogans that cities in California are known by or have been known by historically , officially and unofficially, to locals, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, , five months before California achieved statehood.

The money generated by the industry kept the city insulated from much of the economic loss suffered by the rest of the country during the Great Depression. By , the population surpassed one million. Ferdinand Bada April 10 in World Facts. Olympic Games History. Southeast Asian Countries. Commonwealth Of Independent States.

The name has been with the it ever since. Originally home to Native American tribes, the first Europeans passed through Los Angeles during the 16 th century when an expedition sent by the viceroy of New Spain originally staked claim to the area in what is now southern California for the Spanish empire. It was not until years later that the city was actually settled, however, when the new governor of California, Felipe de Neve, sent a group known as Los Pobladores , the settlers, to search for areas that might be suitable for settlement.