History
The village was founded in 1765. It was settled by German settlers, but also by Serbs and Romanians. Before the foundation of the village, two older settlement known as Zeldoš and Velika Dolina existed at this location. These settlements were populated by Serbs and Romanians. In 1767, 43 Romanian families from Pančevo were settled in Novo Selo. In 1918, about 80 percent of the population of the village were ethnic Romanians. Until 1959, Banatsko Novo Selo had a status of separate municipality.
More recently, on the April 5, 1999, during the NATO Bombing Campaign of the Kosovo War there were unsubstantiated claims of Yugoslavian forces, led by Lt.Col. Zoran Damnjanović's air defense unit shot down up to two NATO aircraft between Banatsko Novo Selo and the neighbouring village of Dolovo.
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