Modoš

Modoš lies on the Banat plain beside the Tamiš River, whose floods have long shaped the surrounding fields. The settlement appears in fourteenth-century records under forms of its name including Modos and Modoš. During Ottoman rule, a register associated with the monastery of Peć recorded Serbian inhabitants here, including two priests. In 1717, after the Habsburg conquest of the Banat, the village was counted in the district of Bečkerek with fifty households. Serbian families later moved to the Military Frontier, and German settlers came to the village.