Lippa (present-day Lipova) became the most prosperous settlement in the early : the tax payable by the local priest to the Holy See between 1333 and 1335 (266 dinars) was almost ten times higher than the average tax collected in other parishes. The Slavs of the district of Lipova were converted into Catholicism in the middle of the century, according to John of Küküllő's contemporaneous chronicle. The earliest Romanian place name in the county"Caprewar" (now Căprioara)was recorded in a list of the estates of the Telegdis which was completed in 1337.