 In 1435 Stephen II of Moldavia (1433–1435, 1436–1447) requested the town's judges not to hinder the merchants of Brașov, an important center of the Transylvanian Saxons in their movement.From the 15th century "ungureni", that is Romanians from Transylvania began to populate the area north of the marketplace where they would erect an Orthodox church after 1500.A small residence of the princes of Moldova was built in the town in the first half of the 15th century.