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hyperknot
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Can someone explain what is referred as "Golcondan wealth"?
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hobo_mark
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> By the 1880s, "Golkonda" was being used generically by English speakers to refer to any particularly rich mine, and later to any source of great wealth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golkonda#Diamonds
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