Jaša Tomić (Sečanj)

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Јаша Томић Jaša Tomić

Country:	Serbia
Subdivision:	Vojvodina, Central Banat District, Sečanj municipality
Location:	?
Population: 2002	2,982
Area code:	+ 381(0)23
Postal code:	23230
License plates:	ZR

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Jaša Tomić (Cyrillic: Јаша Томић) is a town located in the Sečanj municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The town has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 2,982 people (2002 census).

1 Name
2 History
3 Ethnic groups (2002 census)
4 Historical population
5 References
6 See also
7 Gallery
8 External links

[edit] Name

The town is named after Jaša Tomić (1856-1922), a Serb publicist and politician from Vojvodina. In Serbian Cyrillic, the town is known as Јаша Томић, in Serbian Latin and Croatian as Jaša Tomić, in German as Modosch, in Hungarian as Módos, in Romanian as Modoş, and in Banat Bulgarian as Modoš. Old name for the town used in the Serbian language was Modoš (Модош).

[edit] History

A topographic names of Slavic origin founded in the area, such as the Grešara, Mlaka, Margitica, Kamenica, Livade, Selište, Rasove, Vagan, Bavanište, etc, testifying that the area was in the past inhabited by Slavs. [1]

Historically, the first time when the place was mentioned was in 1334, under the name Madus. In that time, it was a village, which was inhabited by Catholic Hungarians. Old village name, Modos, came after Latin expression Modus Transciendi, which in English means Way of Crossing River. During the Ottoman rule, in 1660-6, Modoš was populated by ethnic Serbs. In 1836, the population of Modoš numbered 3,560 inhabitants, of whom 2,440 were Orthodox Christians, 1,116 Catholics and 4 Evangelists. [2]

In November 1918, the Serbian army entered into the town, but it was soon, in July 1919, given to Romania, which was confirmed by the Treaty of Versailles. In 1924, the town, together with two other villages (Pardanj (today Međa) and Šurjan) was transferred to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in change for town Jimbolia and three other places, which were transferred to Romania.

Formerly, Jaša Tomić was a seat of the municipality, but after World War II, the seat of the municipality was moved to Sečanj. However, even today, Jaša Tomić is the largest settlement in the municipality as well as the only settlement in municipality with town status (Sečanj, the current seat of municipality, is only a village).

In 2005, the town was devastated by floods.

[edit] Ethnic groups (2002 census)

Serbs = 2,126 (71.29%)
Hungarians = 251 (8.42%)
Roma = 142 (4.76%)
Yugoslavs = 125 (4.19%)
Bulgarians = 29 (0.97%)
Macedonians = 11 (0.37%)
Croats = 10 (0.34%)
others.

[edit] Historical population

Year	1869	1900	1921	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991
Population	4,272	4,614	4,750	4,378	4,569	4,420	3,831	3,625	3,544

[edit] References

Jovan Erdeljanović, Srbi u Banatu, Novi Sad, 1992.
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
Dr Dušan J. Popović, Srbi u Vojvodini, knjiga I, Novi Sad, 1990.
Msgr. Erős Lajos, Adalékok a Zrenjanini-Nagybecskereki Egyházmegye történetéhez, 1993. (Additamenta ad historiam Diocesis Zrenjaninensis-Nagybecskerekensis)