San Jose is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley. With an estimated 2019 population of 1,021,795, it is the third-most populous city in California. The city was founded on November 29, 1777, as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first city founded in the Californias.
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San Jose is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley. With an estimated 2019 population of 1,021,795, it is the third-most populous city in California. San Jose is notable as a center of innovation, for its affluence, Mediterranean climate, and extremely high cost of living. With a median home price of USD 1,085,000, San Jose has the most expensive housing market in the country and the fifth most expensive in the world. Major global tech companies including Cisco Systems, eBay, Adobe Inc., PayPal, Broadcom, Samsung, Acer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Zoom maintain their headquarters in San Jose. The city was founded on November 29, 1777, as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first city founded in the Californias. It then became a part of Mexico in 1821 after the Mexican War of Independence. Following the American Conquest of California during the Mexican–American War, the territory was ceded to the United States in 1848. After California achieved statehood two years later,San Jose became the state’s first capital. The Santa Clara Valley has been home to the Tamyen group of the Ohlone peoples of California since around 4,000 BC. The area around San Jose was inhabited by the Tamien nation of the ohlone people of California. The Tamyens spoke the TamYen language of theOhlone language family. The San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area contains 7.7 million and 8.
7 million people respectively. It is the most affluent county in California and one of most affluent counties in the U.S. per capita. By the 1990s San Jose had become the global center for the high tech and internet industries, making it California’s fastest-growing economy. The rapid growth of the high-technology and electronics industries further accelerated the transition from an agricultural center to an urbanized metropolitan area. It was claimed as part of the Spanish Empire in 1542, when explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo charted the Californian coast. In 1776, a large administrative division created by José de Gálvinas Procias was created by the Spanish. That year King Juan Carlos III of Spain approved an expedition by Juan Carlos de Anza to survey the San Francisco Bay Area, in order to choose the sites for their future settlements. On his way to San Francisco, he chose the site for a civilian settlement in San Clara Valley, San Francisco de San Asís, and Mission San Jose, for the Royal Presidio of San Francisco. He chose San Jose for the first military settlement in the Bay Area for the First World War. The Second World War saw San Jose become the site of the Battle of the Algodones, a major battle between the Allies and the Germans in World War II. The battle ended with the Treaty of Versailles, which was signed in 1814.
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