Istanbul Province Istanbul Province Istanbul Province (), also the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality ("İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi") is a province of Turkey. It has an area of and is located in the Marmara region in the north-west of the country, bordered by Tekirdağ Province to the west and Kocaeli Province to the east. The Bosphorus Strait between the Black Sea to the north and the Sea of Marmara to the south divides Istanbul Province into European and Asian sides, which makes it one of only two transcontinental provinces in Turkey, along with Çanakkale Province. Istanbul Province has a population of 14,804,116 as of 2016,
City of the Caesars shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan, survivors in exile of the Disaster of Curalaba, ghosts, Patagonian giants and survivors of the Inca Empire; indeed, one explanation of the legend is that it derived from stories told to sailors by aborigines describing the Empire of Peru. Charles Sheffield's science fiction story "Trapalanda" (in "Asimov's Science Fiction," June, 1987) is built around a quest to find Trapalanda. City of the Caesars The City of the Caesars (Spanish Ciudad de los Césares), also variously known as "City of Patagonia", "the Wandering City", "Trapalanda" or "Trapananda", "Lin Lin" or "Elelín", is a mythical city