The oldest document mentioning a village of this commune refers to Păltiniș, and dates back to 11 December 1534; it is a document from the chancellery of hospodar
Vlad VII Vintilă, and also mentions the Tega brook, and a shipment of merchandise from the villages in the
Buzău river valley towards
Brașov. Initially, the villages in the area were yeomen villages. The locals were working as lumberjacks and carpenters or hunters. In 1672, hospodar
Radu Leon granted the land to the yeomen of
Sibiciu. They took it as a common ownership and used it for shepherding, as in that area grasslands were insufficient. During the reign of
Constantin Brâncoveanu (late 17th, early 18th century), the ownership of the Buzău mountains was clearly established: five people were owning the land up until the
Austrian Empire's border. One of the owners was Costache Sibiceanu, former yeoman who became a boyar. During the phanariote period, a Wallachian of Greek origin, by the name of Enache Persescu, acquired the lands of the local peasants who could not prove their inheritance. In the meantime, they became serfs on the Bâsca-Gura Teghii estate, so they could not raise cattle, so they took on coopery, selling barrels and casks in the
Buzău and
Mizil market towns; the traditional trade was kept until the 1940s, but became lost due to industrialization—many locals were hired at the
Göetz lumber mills in
Nehoiu. ==Notes==