 It was "Apponitz" in German and "Appony" in Hungarian, thus the name of the Apponyi family which retains that spelling even when referred to in Slovak.The village's history was dominated by disputes between the Apponyi family and the Chapter of Nitra Cathedral in the 15th century, by the widespread adoption of Lutheranism in the 16th century (reversed in the 17th), and then by Ottoman raids especially in 1530-1531 and in the late 16th century.In 1663-1685, a period of Ottoman rule between the fourth Austro-Turkish war and the War of the Holy League, it was part of the Uyvar Province as an administrative unit of the "Nahiye" of Nitra.