 Eventually, these crossings petered out as the frontier was stabilized and tensions increased between the two countries.Social and Cultural Developments

The town's amateur folk group and its folk music orchestra "Lira", was featured in the 1967 movie "The 25th Hour" starring international movie actors Anthony Quinn and Virna Lisi, and directed by French director Henri Verneuil.A Carlo Ponti production, the film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Romanian Uniate refugee priest.