piski

Updated: June 22, 2025

Now when the post wagons had reached the celebrated Bridge of Piski, lo, there and then, face to face, four and twenty horsemen came, riding towards them from the opposite side of the bridge and the five and twentieth was Fatia Negra.

Mór Jókai - The Poor Plutocrats

At length a more careful search was made, and it proved that coal existed there in abundance! In 1867 mining was commenced on a large scale by the Kronstäder Company. The next year a town was already growing up in the neighbourhood of the mines, and increased in a most surprising manner. In 1870 the railway was opened from Petrosèny to Piski, on the main line from Arad.

Andrew F. Crosse - Round About the Carpathians