 Suceava County in Romania) and are politically represented by the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR).Ethnic Germans known as Transylvanian Saxons (who were mainly craftsmen and merchants stemming from present-day Luxembourg and Rhine-Moselle areas of Western Europe), had sparsely settled in the western mountainous regions of the Principality of Moldavia over the course of the late medieval Ostsiedlung migration (which, in this particular case, took place throughout the 13th and 14th centuries).These settlers encouraged trade and urban development.