Due to the battles that raged during the expulsion of Turks from Hungary following the Ottoman defeat at the Siege of Buda in 1686, the town's population was wiped out.
In the early 19th century, wealthy Germans of Frankish descent moved in from the now-extinct town of Csanád.
[2] Following the First World War the village briefly fell under the jurisdiction of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, along with the surrounding area.
The night before, German forces left the village after they destroyed the Szeged-Timisoara railway line.
As of 2022, 92.4% of the village was Hungarian, 3.1% Serbian, 1.3% Gypsy, 0.4% Romanian, 0.4% German, and 4.3% of non-European origin.