zalathna

Updated: May 7, 2025

Indeed the public lost nothing by their fabrication, though the state treasury suffered considerably. The whole region, in fact, from Zalathna to Verespatak abounded in that precious metal which some fool or other has called "a mere chimera," and the gold mining was farmed out to private individuals, the yearly output from the shafts being twelve hundredweights.

Mór Jókai - The Poor Plutocrats