Periam (until 1925 Periamoș;[4] German: Perjamosch; Hungarian: Perjámos; Serbian: Перјамош, romanized: Perjamoš) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania.

Aranca is a river installed on the former riverbeds of Mureș, arranged on a wide area of digression, before damming.

It has as a left tributary the Galațca, from Jimbolia Plain, which starts from Periam, an even older course of Mureș and which is generally supplied by pumping.

Mureș – one of the largest rivers in Romania – flows about 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Periam.

[5] Periam commune and the surrounding area are located in the temperate climate zone, at approximately equal distance from the equator and pole.

[5] The flora finds European, Eurasian and Pontic elements, with grassy, halophilous (which has a discontinuous development, being adapted to the regime of salts and high humidity from these lands), aquatic and segetal vegetation present here.

The new administration led by Count Claude Florimond de Mercy then began an extensive program of colonization of Banat.

All this time, Romanians and Serbs were forced to leave, so Periam became a predominantly German locality.

In 1761 there was a strong flood of the Mureș River, which determined the relocation of the hearth of the village to the present-day location.

In the mid-19th century, the Bishop of Zagreb, Slovak-born Juraj Haulik, founded a separate settlement called Haulikfalva,[10] which would later merge into the hearth of Periam.