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The Jewelry District is predominantly made up of early twentieth-century buildings. Half of the area falls under the greater "Historic Core" of downtown Los Angeles, which spans between Hill and Main Streets, and 3rd and 9th streets. The median year in which the buildings in the area were built was 1923.
In 1769, the Spanish Portola expedition, the first Europeans to see inland areas of California, traveled north through Sepulveda pass on August 5.The party had been travelling west, intending to reach and follow the coast, but were discouraged by the steep coastal cliffs beginning at today's Pacific Palisades and decided to detour inland.
The Arbëreshë (pronounced [aɾbəˈɾɛʃ]; Albanian: Arbëreshët e Italisë; Italian: Albanesi d'Italia), also known as Albanians of Italy or Italo-Albanians, are an Albanian ethnolinguistic group minority historically settled in Southern and Insular Italy (in the regions of Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, and Molise, but mostly concentrated in the regions of Calabria and Sicily).
Italian American Museum of Los Angeles [18] [19] [20] Via Italia, San Pedro [21] Long Beach has a community, among others in LA metro area. [22] The Coachella Valley [23] – Order of Sons of Italy America has a group there. Palm Springs has a neighborhood known as Little Tuscany, and the neighborhoods of Las Palmas and the Movie Colony. [24]
Each year, the museum sponsors the annual fundraiser Taste of Italy Los Angeles, [6] a celebration of Italian American and Italian history, cuisine, and culture, which takes place in October and draws thousands of participants. Other events include the 1910s to 1940s-themed Vintage!, as well as film screenings, lectures, art programs for ...
The eparchies also serve the faithful of other Byzantine Rite Churches without established hierarchies in the United States, namely those of the Albanian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Hungarian, Italo-Albanian, Macedonian, Russian, and Slovakian Byzantine Catholic Churches.
Sotir Ferrara – Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi; Donato Oliverio – Bishop of the Eparchy of Lungro, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Calabria, Italy; Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro – Bishop of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Sicily ...
Pasadena, in Los Angeles, also has several hundred Albanians. Scottsdale, Arizona, as well as the Greater Phoenix area, has about 2-3,000 ethnic Albanians, and an Albanian cafe in Phoenix. [35] [36] A small yet sizable Albanian community can be found in Washington state, including Mercer Island and within the Seattle area. [37]