In 1552, Modoš became part of the Ottoman Empire, administratively included in the Province of Temeşvar. With the Ottoman conquest, most of the local Hungarian population left for the north and the Ottoman authorities brought in Serbs in their place. Thus Modoš under the Ottoman administration was populated by ethnic Serbs and divided into two settlements - Veliki Modoš and Mali Modoš. In 1660-6, Katastig of the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć recorded the names of Serb inhabitants of Modoš - priest Jaftimije and priest Zaharije, Ilija, Granny Romana, Milić Radojević, Vladislav, Rusmir, Vuja, Komlenija, Avram, Gavril Panov, Mata, Radomir, Cveja Vranešev, Andreja, and Petar.