Originally it was the village of Kesy (Kescu and its part Quescu) and belonged to the Zobor Abbey. Then Duke Ban got it and Bánkeszi, today's Bánov, was born. For centuries, however, it was known as Kesy or Kesa and the inhabitants as Kesania. Bánov is located in a flat part of the Danube plain, just a few kilometers from the towns of Šurany and Nové Zámky. In ancient times, the road from Moravia led through Šaštín, Bratislava and Hlohovec to Esztergom and crossed another important road, the Nitra Road. At the time when the village was a royal property, it had only 250 inhabitants. Later, she sought protective wings from the Turks and Tatars from the owners of Šurian Castle. Even so, it was ravaged by the conquerors, leaving little of the original inhabitants. The nobility sent here to live subjects from western Slovakia and Moravia, and so we still hear the Moravian dialect here from time to time. After the abolition of serfdom, many workshops, craftsmen and guild masters were established in Bánov. The village developed again, crafts flourished. At the end of the 19th century, the inhabitants built their own municipal mill in Nitra, Sihota, which ground until the 1950s, when it burned down. At the turn of the century, the railway from Nové Zámky to Šurian also brought development. She gave the Banovites a job, despite the fact that the sparks from the locomotive destroyed almost the entire crop in the fields during one season.
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