The commune, like Câmpulung itself, sits just below the Southern Carpathians, and includes Mățău peak, held as the tallest hill in Romania, as well as sediments with fossilized fish from the Oligocene period.

Toponymic clues have led historians to suppose that Mioarele's inhabitants included Early Slavs and Cumans, and that some part of the village may be known in written records from 1401 or 1402.

This new settlement thrived while Suslănești went into a relative decline, its land encroached upon by several monastery estates and boyar families—including the Rucăreanus, who had a long feud with the Jumăreas and the other remaining yeomen.

Present-day Mioarele was noted as a scene of heavy fighting during the Romanian withdrawal in World War I, and was vandalized by the Central Powers during a two-year occupation (1916–1918).

Nicolaescu-Mățău, this effort made Mățău and Suslănești stand out as the ancestral homeland for a large number of cultural and political notabilities; figures who trace their origin to the area include Muscel's Prefect Alexandru Mușetescu, literary scholar Dan Simonescu, and writer Tudor Mușatescu.

Such objectives were realized by the communist regime, which incorporated the villages under a single commune in 1956–1967, and made it part of Argeș County in 1968; it also introduced the collectivization of farmlands, with a large-scale cultivation of orchards, and conscripted local youth in projects of road modernization.

[9] In a 1961 piece, local historian Nicolae Nasta summarized the results of archeological finds in and around Suslănești, reporting that, during Dacian rule in the 3rd century BC, the area served as a storage spot for wine and oil, imported from the Greek cities on the Black Sea coast.

[8][9] Local historian Ion Nania argues that, during the Early Middle Ages in Romania, Mățău-Mioarele was an area of Cuman settlement, and as such briefly included in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cumania.

He uses as evidence historical sources which discuss a rump "Cumania" as being located east of the Olt River, as well seemingly Cumanic place-names, such as "Marlauz" in Suslănești.

[19] An indirect report that a village existed in Mățău during the mid-to-late 15th century is provided by the mention of two locals serving as soldiers for Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler.

In 1503, the commercial register of Corona mentioned the village (called Suslanest or Suschlanest in Saxon dialect) as one of 28 Wallachian localities it had direct and permanent exchanges with.

[24] According to sociological research carried out by Ioan Șucu in the 1970s, the yeomen lineages are traceable to medieval times, whereas the serf families are historically invisible to 1746, when Prince Constantine Mavrocordatos abolished serfdom, and lifted them into the class of sharecroppers.

The church was positively dated to the early 16th century, while the bodies buried were tentatively identified as belonging to the lowest caste of the boyar aristocracy, "since nothing is mentioned of their ranks.

[28] The surrounding areas were inhabited over the following decades: documents from the 1570s and '80s mention several yeomen (Radu, Drăghici, Oprea of Suslănești) acting as witnesses in land disputes and other legal matters; between the 1590s and the 1620s, the village was one of several estates owned by the boyar Staicu, who rose to the rank of Postelnic.

Known as "Jumărea" or "Jumărescu", its first known member was Voicu Toacă of Suslănești (active before 1644), whose inheritance was split between children Badea, Neaga, Vișa and Neacșa (the former is known to have used a double-headed eagle on his own seal).

[34][27] Into the 19th century, the land was fragmented further, with plots donated to Șubești Church of Câmpulung, or purchased by the Skete of Mărculești, by Alecu Chilișoiu, and by Logothete Nicolae Rucăreanu.

[35] The name as used for a locality is again attested in June 1614, as Mățăul de Jos ("Lower Mățău"), with the upper half of the village implied, but only truly mentioned in April 1716.

[47] The Kingdom increased the pace of institutional modernization; in the 1890s, its Education Minister, Spiru Haret, directed Muscel's teaching staff to provide for the peasants' cultivation and social emancipation.

In a September 1930 article prompted by the alumni reunion, novelist Cezar Petrescu argued that they included "three physicians, six secondary-school professors, four magistrates, seven officers, one veterinarian, three lawyers, eleven priests, thirty-six primary-school teachers, [and] two high-ranking clerks in the ministry of finance".

[49] A similar influence was exercised by Nicolae Cristescu, a Mățău native who taught at the school in Goleștii Badii, Topoloveni; his students included Ion Mihalache, the future agrarian politician, and Mihai Antonescu, Deputy Premier during World War II.

The scene of several aerial dogfights and repeated shelling, Mățău was also a destination for the refugee citizens of Câmpulung, and eventually occupied by the Central Powers during the massive defeats of late 1916.

[32] The Romanian Land Forces' withdrawal reportedly saw Mihalache, who was serving with the rank of Captain, rescuing a trove of documents and monies out of Suslănești.

Its core membership included schoolteacher Gheorghe Vișoiu, originally from Mățău, though his political career only peaked after he moved to Olt County.

[64] Muscel had been merged into the larger regional unit, Ținutul Bucegi, whose Royal Resident, Gheorghe Alexianu, set himself the goal of building a new bridge on the highway linking Mățău to Boteni.

"[68] Months later, the downfall of the FRN regime and its replacement with Ion Antonescu's dictatorship also brought a reestablishment of the counties, with military or civilian commissioners as their Prefects.

In May 1942, Antonescu's appointment in Muscel, General Teodor Nicolau, announced that he intended to develop Mățău, Suslănești and Boteni into a hub of intensive horticulture.

[69] Suslănești was again merged into Mățău commune; its other census-designated places of 1941 were Călulești, Cocenești, and Melcești (the latter name disappeared from public memory in later decades).

[15] The final stages of World War II saw the United States Air Force bombing southern Romania; on May 5–6, 1944, this mission focused on Pitești.

This reticence pushed the authorities to select a new name, "Mioarele" (from mioare, "young sheep", alluding to the region's background in animal husbandry).

[9] Also that year, the ski slope's seasonal opening was postponed after the snow groomer was discovered to be unusable, allegedly due to theft of its parts.