Modoš

Jaša Tomić Јаша Томић
Village
Jaša Tomić, panoramic view
Jaša Tomić Location of Jaša Tomić within Serbia
Coordinates: 45°26′29″N 20°51′11″E / 45.44139°N 20.85306°E / 45.44139; 20.85306Coordinates: 45°26′29″N 20°51′11″E / 45.44139°N 20.85306°E / 45.44139; 20.85306
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	Central Banat
Elevation	52 m (171 ft)
Population (2002)
• Jaša Tomić	2,982
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	23230
Area code(s)	+381(0)23
Car plates	ZR

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

The town is named after Jaša Tomić (1856–1922), a Serb journalist 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 Modoș, and in Banat Bulgarian as Modoš. The former name for the town used in Serbian was Modoš (Модош). It is assumed that the old village name, Modoš, derived from the Latin phrase modus transciendi, which in English means way of crossing the river.

The oldest known settlements in this area date from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. Findings from the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages have been found, including a burial from the Bosut-Basarabi culture of the 9th century BC. The area contains archaeological traces of Celts, Thracians, Romans, Avars and Slavs. Topographic names of Slavic origin found in the area, such as the Grešara, Mlaka, Margitica, Kamenica, Livade, Selište, Rasove, Vagan, Bavanište, etc., testify that the area was inhabited by Slavs from the 5th century onwards.