The history of Los Angeles is said to have begun in 1771, when Franciscan friar Junipero Serra built a mission in the area. Ten years later 44 settlers, comprising 11 families and a diverse range of ethnic groups, including Spaniards, native Americans, and Africans, founded a community here. Through the discovery of gold mines and subsequent Gold Rush in the middle of the nineteenth century, an oil field boom in the late nineteenth century, and the development of the movie industry in the twentieth century, symbolized by the birth of the movie capital of Hollywood, Los Angeles eventually grew into the second-largest city in the United States. It is also said to be the birthplace of fusion cuisine. Inheriting this cosmopolitan background, today's Los Angeles continues to attract people of various nationalities, ethnic groups, and faiths and to further change and develop.
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