Perlez (Serbian Cyrillic: Перлез; Hungarian: Perlasz) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia.

[1] The town originally consisted of a hamlet named Siga, next to which a fort called Šanac was built in the early-18th Century.

In 1752, Count Perlas, president the administration of the Banat and treasurer for the province of Timisoara, founded a new village just outside the fort, which he named after himself.

Early settlers were Serbs from elsewhere in the region, Germans, Croats, Slovaks and Hungarians, many of whom were employed as border guards.

[2] Following the Treaty of Trianon the region shifted from Hungarian to Yugoslav administration and the town's name was changed to Perlez, accordingly.