Istanbul in the 1970s, as people from Anatolia migrated to the city to find employment in the many new factories that were built on the outskirts of the sprawling metropolis. This sudden, sharp rise in the city's population caused a large demand for housing, and many previously outlying villages and forests became engulfed into the metropolitan area of Istanbul. Istanbul is located in north-western Turkey within the Marmara Region on a total area of . The Bosphorus, which connects the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea, divides the city into a European, Thracian side—comprising the historic and economic centers—and an
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