Orțișoara (archaically Cocota;[4] German: Orczydorf/Kokota; Hungarian: Orczyfalva/Kakad; Serbian: Кокода, romanized: Kokoda) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania.

This high plain, fragmented by piedmont valleys and numerous crevices, allows the subdivision of the area into three sectors:[2] The perimeter of the commune belongs to the Bega–Beregsău river basin.

In the eastern part of Seceani, all the valleys converge towards the Măgheruș stream, which has a permanent course, but with a fluctuating flow, during the rainy autumns and springs the whole meadow being flooded.

The stream fixed its course on a tectonic line, which led to the appearance of a series of mineralized springs and several mud volcanoes whose bubbling is due to the strong outflows of cold gases from inside the earth.

Uncultivated woody vegetation is poorly represented by isolated specimens or small clusters of species such as Populus nigra (black poplar), Tilia cordata (small-leaved linden), Acer platanoides (Norway maple), Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust), Rosa canina (dog rose), Crataegus monogyna (hawthorn), Ligustrum vulgare (privet) and Prunus spinosa (blackthorn).

On salty soils are common Trifolium fragiferum (strawberry clover), Puccinellia distans (weeping alkaligrass), Limonium gmelinii (Siberian statice), Champhorosma ovata and Matricaria chamomilla (chamomile).

In the depressions of the high plain there are species such as Anagallis arvensis (scarlet pimpernel), Cirsium arvense (field thistle), Centaurea cyanus (cornflower), Galium verum (yellow bedstraw), Plantago lanceolata (ribwort plantain), Rumex crispus (curly dock) and Rubus caesius (dewberry).

In the flat area of the high plain, on automorphic soils, there are mainly specimens of Nonea pulla (monkswort), Vicia spp.

[2] In the Middle Ages, on the site of today's Orțișoara, there was a settlement called Kokoth, the first records of which are found in 1318, when András, the son of Miklós Kokaachi, appears as its owner.

At that time, under the reign of Emperor Joseph II, 200 families of German colonists from Lorraine, Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Württemberg and Bavaria settled here.

The governor of Banat, Perlas Rialph, submitted to the empress a memorandum proposing the relocation of several Romanian villages: Murani, Jadani, Calacea, Seceani, Săcălaz, etc.

Historian Nicolae Ilieșiu [ro] (1921) shows that in a diploma from 1318 is mentioned that "the mayor of Zadane village is a Vlach, named George, a witness in a possession process".

Traces from the Roman period have been discovered on the territory of the locality, but today's Seceani dates from the Middle Ages, most probably being mentioned for the first time in a document from 1256, with the name Zechin.

The park in the resort occupies an area of almost 14 ha (35 acres), with secular trees, a forest of locusts, spruces and other plant species.

Inside the fortification were discovered an access gate provided with four-meter-high (13 ft) defense towers, the ruins of an ancient temple, Sarmatian tombs, pottery workshops and a settlement dating from the 3rd or 4th century.

Another hypothesis, supported by Constantin Răileanu in 1981, but refuted by Florin Medeleț [ro], considered the ruins as the remains of the city of Tema,[22] mentioned in Anonymus Ravennas' Cosmography.

[24] From a strategic point of view, the fortification is halfway between the Timiș and Mureș river basins, the main access road to Transylvania.

It is not excluded that this fortification to be a construction with an important role of prestige for the warrior elites from the end of the Bronze Age, in the north of Banat.